Category Archives: Quotations

Things people said.

How a bespoke Suit works

Posted on July 7, 2018 by JMN

“A Savile Row suit ‘rarely looks new in the conventional sense.’ Its magic ‘is that it enhances your real self into heightened fantasy, then presents this fantasy as your real self.’ “ (Lance Richardson, “House of Nutter,” reviewed by Matthew … Continue reading →

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Likability

Posted on July 7, 2018 by JMN

“As far as likability, I don’t think that I have more than most people but I try not to be rude. I like when people are polite and kind to other people. I just think life is so hard, why … Continue reading →

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Anne Tyler on Eudora Welty and endurance

Posted on July 6, 2018 by JMN

[Tyler discovered Welty’s “A Curtain of Green and Other Stories” at age 14.] “I was just flabbergasted. I said, she’s writing my life, people I know, and it’s not Shakespearean English… Later I even got to know her. She was … Continue reading →

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… And a partridge in a pear tree

Posted on July 6, 2018 by JMN

“…The Cave Rescue Organization, the oldest cave-rescue group in Britain, says it has responded to 2,927 episodes since its founding in 1935. Of those, 745 were in caves; the rest were on mountains and in disused mines or other locations. … Continue reading →

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“Epistemic Skepticism”

Posted on July 6, 2018 by JMN

“As an attitude…, epistemic skepticism consists in always second-guessing your own judgments — about yourself, other people and situations; always monitoring those judgments to make sure you’re seeing clearly, have the facts right, aren’t making any unfounded inferences or deceiving … Continue reading →

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Wiseness

Posted on July 4, 2018 by JMN

Bake bread and break it. Give kids an uphappy bringing. Untied we stand. “Magna Farta” (Oliver Cromwell) “…Thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness….” (Deuteronomy 32:15) “A dream sullied is not a lie.” (David … Continue reading →

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“With art comes empathy…”

Posted on July 1, 2018 by JMN

“…With art comes empathy. It allows us to look through someone else’s eyes and know their strivings and struggles. It expands the moral imagination and makes it impossible to accept the dehumanization of others. When we are without art, we … Continue reading →

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“It’s not just writers…”

Posted on June 27, 2018 by JMN

“It’s not just writers. It’s everyone. The writer is just an extreme case of something everyone struggles with. ‘On the one hand, to function well, you have to believe in yourself and your abilities and summon enormous confidence from somewhere. … Continue reading →

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The Northernness

Posted on June 25, 2018 by JMN

“If you’re full of beauty and positive things it’s harder for stuff to get to you. Joy is not a luxury that you can tack on when you’ve sorted everything out, joy is how you will sort out your problems… … Continue reading →

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“We must…”

Posted on June 25, 2018 by JMN

“We must resist the temptation to opt out of politics and to assume that nothing can be done in face of all the current ugliness, deception and corruption. Arendt’s lifelong project was to honestly confront and comprehend the darkness of … Continue reading →

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