James Richardson quotes - page 4

I aspire to know when best to walk or eat, which music I need, and how to keep myself sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured with doing practically nothing. (James Richardson)
Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink. View quote
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Path: where nothing grows. View quote
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I'm surprised that multiple personalities are so much less common in reality than in fiction: what a little disorder it would take, a distraction, a sleep, for one of our minor characters to imagine he was the star, to speak out for everyone else. And that's what it would be, a change of billing, not of authorship. For you do not write your play-you are just the character in it called The Playwright. The real writer, you never meet. View quote
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I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true. View quote
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Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer. View quote
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What's thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the attic for any little trinket you hadn't known was there. View quote
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Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence. View quote
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It is clear, we say, as if to see through something were to know it. View quote
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What I'm not changes more than what I am. View quote
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Why would we write if we'd already heard what we wanted to hear? (James Richardson)
There is no road to the land without roads. View quote
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A strange gratitude for those I disagree with. They keep me from having to take too seriously the moments when I disagree with myself. View quote
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Birds of prey don't sing. View quote
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