Orts #850
[When one] has fair health, a fair fortune, a tidy conscience and a complete exemption from embarrassing relatives, I suppose he is bound, in delicacy, to write himself happy.
— Henry James, in his Diary
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
— René Descartes, in the Introduction to Discourse on the Method
One premise of art is that anything personal seen deeply enough becomes general, becomes impersonal.
— Frank Bidart, in his National Book Awards acceptance speech, 2017
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.
-- Sarah Vowell (1969- )
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