people have an instinct to be useful and can’t handle the r… - Jim Harrison

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people have an instinct to be useful and can’t handle the relentless everydayness of life unless they work hard. It is sheer idleness that deadens the soul and causes neuroses.

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I was cooking my life in a cracked clay pot that was leaking. I had found secrets I didn’t deserve to know. When the battle for the mind is finally over it’s late June, green and raining.

Combien de fois avons-nous entendu dire que cinq millions d'enfants se couchent tous les soirs en ayant faim ? Sans doute moins souvent que toutes les fois où nous avons lu ou vu des articles où l'on faisait l'éloge de la richesse.

A mood can be a mud puddle to be jumped over.

people have an instinct to be useful and can’t handle the relentless everydayness of life unless they work hard. It is sheer idleness that deadens th… - Jim Harrison

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