"Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in."

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Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2011). “Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself”, p.16, Penguin UK

Tom Hodgkinson

#Boredom Quotes #Office Quotes #Long Quotes

“Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.”
“The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take care of their Bibles, that they be not mutilated or curtailed by lawless criticism; they must take care of their theology, that it be not perverted by false philosophy; and they must take care of their pulpits, that they be not occupied by heretical, unspiritual, or incompetent ministers.”

Source : John Angell James (1848). “An Earnest Ministry the Want of the Times”, p.16
“Why'd you leave the match, huh?”
“Can't keep up, you haters too slow.”
“Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.”
“For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.”
“We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company ...”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.”

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