James Richardson Quotes

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Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.

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Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.

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The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.

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The new gets old much faster than the old gets older.

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Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

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How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.

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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.

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Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink.

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Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

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He does not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if someday he might.

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God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.

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I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.

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It is less important to escape pain than to avoid exceptionless rules.

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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.

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Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.

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I lied. And my embarrassment was so great that I changed everything else to make the lie true.

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I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions.

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Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.

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The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

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Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.

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Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.

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The tyrant puts down his own rebellion, everywhere.

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If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does.

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First he gathered what he needed. Then he needed to keep gathering what he used to need.

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The viruses that co-opt the machinery of our cells; the stories we allow to enter and explain us.

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Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.

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To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.

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To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you.

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Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.

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A belief is a question we have put aside so we can get on with what we believe we have to do.

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