Quote #124

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

More from Ashleigh Brilliant

  1. This is serious: some of the things that are supposed to last the rest of my life are already wearing out.
  2. Everything takes longer than you expect - even when you expect it to take longer than you expect.
  3. I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.
  4. I can only do one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
  5. When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.
  6. Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.
  7. If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
  8. The best thing about being too late is that there's no more need to hurry.

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