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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth
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“You talkin’ to me”
Taxi Driver at 50: Martin Scorsese’s film remains a troubling reflection of our times - a forlorn portrait of a society coming apart at the seams.
“There are a lot of Travis Bickles, especially right now.”
"They’re all talking to each other on the internet. When I first wrote about him, he was talking to nobody. He really was, at that point, the Underground Man. Now he’s the Internet Man."
"It is a sobering thought."
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https://theconversation.com/taxi-driver-at-50-martin-scorseses-film-remains-a-troubling-reflection-of-our-times-261662
#ressentiment #violence #discontent #masculinity #rage #racism #misogyny #EconomicDecline #loss #ranking #valorisation #ImperialistViolence #inequality #progress #regression #WesternModernity #SocialAcceleration #film #internet #PublicSphere #OnEdge -
A hungry man [is] an angry man.
James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/12061/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #anger #discontent #dissatisfaction #hunger #resentment #temper
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/80903…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #comparison #desire #discontent #envy #gratification #jealousy #keepingupwiththejoneses #lack #misery #resentment #unhappiness #want
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/80903…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #comparison #desire #discontent #envy #gratification #jealousy #keepingupwiththejoneses #lack #misery #resentment #unhappiness #want
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The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
(Misattributed)Quite a bit more about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/3923/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #contentment #discontent #envy #happiness #jealousy #life #perspective #poor #poverty #rich #wealth #wealthy
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Here's #Catholic #World's #Review of John #Steinbeck's last #Novel:
The #Winter of Our #Discontent (1961):It is #Regrettable that the #Author... invested the #Book w/ #MumboJumbo & #HocusPocus involving a #Talisman, a #Female #Witch, & #Ambiguous #Religious #Significance that results in a #Contrived, #Pretentious #Story...
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The #Title is from #Shakespeare's #RichardIII:"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made #Glorious #Summer by this sun [or son] of #York."
