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Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#every #guide #individual #know #language

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#contrary #departure #doctrine #journey #metaphysical

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#creed #far #greater #infinity #notion

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. ↗

— Adam Brody

#boring #care #compares #conversation #how

Fellow made me a $10 bet I couldn't quit, and I haven't had a drink since. At the time I needed the $10. ↗

— Foster Brooks

#drink #fellow #had #haven #i

At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second rate, by no degree of effort or assiduity to be made the equal of abilities like Bonbright's. ↗

— James Gould Cozzens

#equality

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#buy #maybe #money #person #raising

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass. ↗

— Adam Brody

#come #i #i can #i wonder #kick

I'm a fake intellectual. ↗

— Adam Brody

#i #intellectual

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically. ↗