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The British technology journalist Ian Betteridge is credited with the adage “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” I want to make a similar claim: Any question at the end of an essay can be answered with the word yes. (Same goes, most likely, for poems, short …
Around the time of QUANTULUMCUMQUE, he summed it up to me thus: ‘Francis Bacon the painter said, “What I really want very, very much to do is the thing that Paul Valéry said, ‘To give the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance.’” And I think that’s why the things I do are usually so …
Ted Cruz accuses Mitch McConnell of ‘flat-out lie’ in rare Senate floor attack (via Margery Allingham: ‘A thriller is as precise as a sonnet’ | Books | The Guardian) Source: theguardian.com
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(via Book review of Jon Morris’s The League of Regrettable Superheroes | Open Letters Monthly – an Arts and Literature Review) Source: openlettersmonthly.com
Philosopher Mary Fisher said: “People should live every day like they’re going to be alive for the remainder of their natural life span. Living each day like it’s your last actually a terrible idea Source: thedailymash.co.uk
(via No regrets? Why not? | Life and style | The Guardian) Source: theguardian.com
Once you grasp this, the modern mantra of “no regrets” begins to look not courageous but fear-based: a desperate, panicky effort to avoid future sadness. By contrast, and paradoxically, amor fati offers a more full-throated way of overcoming regret: by accepting it. It’s not a matter of making bold choices “before it’s too late”, but …
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