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I wonder about people who say they haven’t time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day with customers, fighting or loving Mary, coping with the children - none of these prevents a second and continuing layer of thinking, wondering, conjecturing. Surely this must be true of everyone. Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut: A Man Without a Country
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When I stopped working on the races I was glad but it left an emptiness. By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
