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As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.


Wendell Berry


#freedom

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.


William Hazlitt


#essays #great-men #greatness #men

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.


Pico Iyer


#travel-essays #faith

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.


Joe Queenan


#books #essays #humor #life #reading

Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.


David Malouf


#fiction #literature #life

When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!


Barbara Conelli


#chique-secrets-of-dolce-vita #italy #travel #travel-essays #travel-narrative-nonfiction

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.


Anthony Bourdain


#essays #food #romance #food

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.


Chuck Klosterman


#because #different #essays #i #interested

I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased exponentially, my daily interactions with the views of others have never been so frequent, the diversity of voices I engage with is far higher than in the pre-Internet age—and all this has helped me become more modest as a thinker, more open to error, less fixated on what I do know, and more respectful of what I don't. If this is a deterioration in my brain, then more, please. "The problem is finding the space and time when this engagement stops, and calm, quiet, thinking and reading of longer-form arguments, novels, essays can begin. Worse, this also needs time for the mind to transition out of an instant gratification mode to me a more long-term, thoughtful calm. I find this takes at least a day of detox. Getting weekends back has helped. But if there were a way to channel the amazing insights of blogging into the longer, calmer modes of thinking ... we'd be getting somewhere. "I'm working on it.


Andrew Sullivan


#blogging #essays #humility #internet #media






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