Everything has an educational value if you look for it. But it's the fun I want to get across.
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
Flatter yourself critically.
Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.
Quotations calcify into clichés.
Cunning authors cut to be quoted.
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.
I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.