The world is nothing but babble; and I hardly ever yet saw that man who did not rather prate too much, than speak too little.
Michel de Montaigne
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Showing posts with label listening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label listening. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Friday, March 29, 2013
The longer I live the more convinced I am that one of the greatest
honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to
recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways
and have specific realities.
Shiva Naipaul, quoted by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the Feb 2002 Atlantic magazine.
Shiva Naipaul, quoted by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the Feb 2002 Atlantic magazine.
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