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Books serve us simply by opening a window on all we wanted to say and feel and think about. We may not even notice that they have not said it themselves till we go back to them years later and do not find what we loved in them. You cannot keep the view by taking the window with you.

James Richardson

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.

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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.

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What did you do today? Nothing say our little children, and so do I. What we most are is what we keep mistaking for nothing.

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Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.

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

James Richardson