Thought of the Day: “Cruelty”
“Cruelty is a failure of the imagination”
(Seen last night, but mostly tolerated, at City Arts & Lectures).
Thought of the Day: “Pretending”
“To become something, you have to pretend to be it first.” — Johnathan Lethem (via TTBook)
Thought of the Day: “Foolishness”
“Looking foolish does the spirit good.” —John Updike (via The Writer’s Almanac)
Thought of the Day: “Dumb Politics”
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.” —Eugene McCarthy (whom my mother campeigned for in 1968) (via The Writer’s Almanac).
Thought of the Day: “Crowds”
“The easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place someone is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will result in sudden death.”
Thought of the Day: “Knowing”
“The more I think I know, the more I learn how little I know. And I would know.”