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Posts tagged "idleness"
Apr 08, 2013
“Let me tell you about the nap. It’s absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man. And he said - I was maybe nine - he said, Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off and put a blanket over you and you’re going to sleep better. Well, as with everything, he was right. And so I now do that and I come back from the swimming pool I go to and I have my lunch and I read the paper and I take this glorious thing called a nap. And then the best part of it is that when you wake up, for the first 15 seconds you have no idea where you are. You’re just alive. That’s all you know and it’s bliss. It’s absolute bliss.
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Jul 25, 2012
“One of the things that the comedian mindset requires is laziness.
Jul 02, 2012
“More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary. I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.
— Tim Kreider’s denunciation of the cult of busyness is excellent. (via jimray — can’t really link to this enough. Started reading We Learn Nothing this morning. Kreider is giving a lecture on George Grosz’s influence on editorial cartooning in Dallas at the end of this month…might have to make a road trip!)
(via jimray)
Jul 01, 2012
“I am the laziest ambitious person I know.
Mar 10, 2012
Feb 23, 2012
“My big ambition was to do nothing. But, of course, the matter of supporting myself did intrude.
— Deborah Eisenberg (via Julien)
I have such a horrible memory that I don’t even remember sentences from my own book.
Oop! Made my first mark in steal like an artist!
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Jan 06, 2012
Nov 02, 2011
“Boredom is your window… Once this window opens, don’t try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.
— Joseph Brodsky, “In Praise of Boredom”
(quoted by Jonah Lehrer in “The Importance of Mind-Wandering”
(quoted by Jonah Lehrer in “The Importance of Mind-Wandering”
Nov 01, 2011
“No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (via)
