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James Richardson: top 300 quotes
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Anger (n.) is always ready to be angry.
The Writer (n.) is how books read each other.
Today (n.) is a thing against which the odds were insurmountable, until it happened.
Fantasy (n.) is like tyranny in that they both like to write everyone else’s lines.
Altruism (n.) makes it unclear if I am trying to help you or want to be liked by you, for the way feelings are, it’s not so easy to distinguish your happiness from mine.
Gravity (n.) is reciprocal: the planet rises to the sparrow's landing.
Love (n.) is like poetry: forcing yourself is useless, you have to want to, but there’s such a thing as knowing how to make yourself want to.
Truth (n.) is like the flu. I fight it off, but it changes in other bodies and returns in a form to which I am not immune.
Truth (n.) is the victim both of a tyranny and a democracy. It is too costly in a tyranny, and in a democracy there’s no market for it.
Happiness (n.) is distinguished from despair in that despair says I cannot lift that weight while happiness says, I do not have to.
Happiness (n.) is distinguished from despair in that despair says It's all the same. Happiness knows there are even a thousand Despairs.
Happiness (n.) is gratitude in search of something to be owed to.
Happiness (n.) is not the only happiness.
Time (n.) heals by taking even more.