"They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other."

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Source : "Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.

James Richardson

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“I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.
“It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.”
“Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.”
“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. That's the real obsession. All those stories.”
“Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.”
“If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”

Source : "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.
“Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.”
“Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no angels ascend and descend, where no living hand adorns the fields, feeds the birds of heaven, or regulates events.”

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