Almost done with The Sportswriter by Richard Ford, the first novel I’ve read since March, I think. Again, no book reports. Just great passages I’d like to share. Continue reading “What I’m Reading: The Sportswriter by Richard Ford”
Tag: Quotes
Steve Jobs on Death
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”
From his 2005 Commencement speech at Stanford University
Quote of the Day: Saul Bellow
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Update: Revisited old blog posts from when I was about to graduate college and was more or less in the same job-hunting boat. Except earlier this week I felt much closer to despair because I thought five years later I’d be in a different boat. And now looking back I think, “What needless drama I caused myself. What a dope I was!”
The boat is fine. Just unclear where it’s headed. Anyway. Wise words from Saul Bellow in The New York Times.
“To fall into despair is just a high-class way of turning into a dope. I choose to laugh, and laugh at myself no less than at others.”
Can’t be a dope. Now closing my computer and getting a cheap massage. Happy Friday everyone!
Quote of the Day: Tolstoy
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy
VERY HIGHBROW 