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Sunday, 8 March
Two thoughts from Frederick Forsyth
“A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it.”
“Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it.”
Monday, 9 March
Two thoughts from Rolf Potts
“Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.”
“Someday” (“someday I’ll do this, someday I’ll do that”) is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.”
Tuesday, 10 March
Two thoughts from Natasha Pulley
“Being mad isn’t an excuse for being vague. Can we at least have specific madness?”
“Stop looking at it as an impossible thing and start looking at it as a thing that must be done.”
Wednesday, 11 March
Two thoughts from Harold Pinter
“One’s life has many compartments.”
“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
Thursday, 12 March
Two thoughts from Rebecca West
“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”
“It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.”
Friday, 13 March
Two thoughts from Evelyn Waugh
“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”
“It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.”
Saturday, 14 March
Two thoughts from Oliver Goldsmith
“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”
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Dear Jim,
Great quotes as always. Some of my faves this week:
Frederick Forsyth:
“A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it.”
“Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it.”
(ALMOST all! I'm hoping I can be the one that can make it with no idea and no guts!)
Rolf Potts:
“Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.”
(I'm a TIMEillionaire!)
Natasha Pulley:
“Being mad isn’t an excuse for being vague. Can we at least have specific madness?”
“Stop looking at it as an impossible thing and start looking at it as a thing that must be done.”
(This seems like an impossible thing that must be done.)
Harold Pinter:
“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
(I remember reading this!)
Oliver Goldsmith
“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
(I prefer to get up at least TWO more times
Rebecca West:
“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”
(I hope to not forget this.)
Evelyn Waugh:
“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”
(Love that this one was changed from its original form by those brackets.)
Thank you for sharing!
Love
Myq