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...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts. ↗

— William Faulkner

#vocabulary #life

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#gaston-bachelard #life

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#school #teachers #education

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#body #chest #forward #guitar #heart

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out. ↗

— Paolo Bacigalupi

#stitches #life

Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good. ↗

— J.R. Miller

#joy #life

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#being #dig #forgo #garden #generation

Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette - and calling it by some alternative “low risk” game. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#truth #life

The tire left a skid mark on the road that looked like a mustache. So I shaved it off the pavement, stuffed it in my trunk, and took it home to wear to work the next day. Ah, but that’s life, no?
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— Jarod Kintz

#day #life #mustache #nonsense #pavement

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#annabelle-fancher #fantasy #life #outlook #perspective