Orts #925

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
     -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
 
 
Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
     -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

 
. . . the older I get, and the more lumps fall off my brain, the more I find that rereading is the thing. Build your own little cockeyed canon and then bear down on it; get to know it, forward and backward; get to know it well. 

     -- James Parker, in The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later, The Atlantic, March 31, 2019
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
     -- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)

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