James Richardson quotes - page 3

Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method. (James Richardson)
He Thought Positively till he became a euphemism for himself. View quote
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He does not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if someday he might. View quote
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To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you. View quote
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Hasn't there ... been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer. View quote
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So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted. View quote
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Patience is decisive indecision. View quote
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Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for. View quote
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To think yourself incapable of crime is one failure of the imagination. To think yourself capable of all crimes is another. View quote
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Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying. View quote
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What did you do today? Nothing say our little children, and so do I. What we most are is what we keep mistaking for nothing. (James Richardson)
Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into. View quote
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The god of many cannot remain the true god. View quote
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I lied. And my embarrassment was so great that I changed everything else to make the lie true. View quote
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Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden. View quote
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To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe. View quote
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I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back. View quote
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The tyrant puts down his own rebellion, everywhere. View quote
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The single sin is less of a problem than the good reasons for it. View quote
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Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of. View quote
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If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does. (James Richardson)
I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery. View quote
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Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love. View quote
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To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin. View quote
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The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't. View quote
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