You attenuate your strengths by too assiduously correcting your defects.
Sep 082014
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
You attenuate your strengths by too assiduously correcting your defects.
It is a grave misfortune to be stupid, yet we all laugh at the stupidity of others without a twinge of guilt.
Courage! You have less to lose than you think.
A man can adapt to nearly anything, but only two or three times.
It is a kind of madness, never to sicken at the sound of your own voice.
Too bourgeois is an irritant, not bourgeois enough a disaster.
Men will never be as good at being men as cats are at being cats.
Life has heuristics: only games have rules.
One is human insofar as one is difficult to model.
Life may be sacred, but try telling Life that.