We cannot live happily apart from our fellow men nor among them. We perish of boredom in the country and of fury in the city.
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I do not want to see Michelangelo’s paintings, but Michelangelo painting.
Developers build because parents beget. Suburbs sprawl because lovers do.
Earthworms, beetles, mites, ants, nematodes, springtails, and protozoa bump cell walls and brush antennae in a great clay underground metropolis. There is nothing rural about nature.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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