"I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically."

-- Jane Jacobs

#Granted Quotes #I Have Learned Quotes #Folly Quotes

“In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.”
“I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.”
“What nourishes me also destroys me.”
“The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.”
“Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.”
“While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.”
“Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.”
“The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.”

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