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#aphorism

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Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about a thousand words from a rambler vs. 500 words from Mark Twain? He could say the same thing quicker and with more force than almost any other writer. One thousand words from Ginsberg are not even worth one from Wilde. It’s wild to declare the equivalency of any picture with any army of 1,000 words. Words from a writer like Wordsworth make you appreciate what words are worth. 



Jarod Kintz


#genius #humor #humorist #maxism #nietzsche

The American writer and dilettante Logan Pearsall Smith once said: 'Some people think that life is the thing; but I prefer reading.' When I first came across this, I thought it witty; now I find it—as I do many aphorisms—a slick untruth. Life and reading are not separate activities. The distinction is false (as it is when Yeats imagines a choice between 'perfection of the life, or of the work'). When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape—into different countries, mores, speech patterns—but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life's subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.


Julian Barnes


#books #life #reading #truth #imagination

Embrace aging.


Mitch Albom


#aphorisms #age

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.


Mark Leidner


#writing #beauty

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.


Rebecca McClanahan


#life #life

You can't have love and honor, and neither will bring you peace.


W.M. Driscoll


#love

The eleventh commandment of art: thou shalt not be boring.


W.M. Driscoll


#art

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.


Philip K. Dick


#men

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer


Sun Tzu


#sun-tzu #enemy

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.


Emil Cioran


#melancholy #misery #syllogism #misery






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