A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.
Quotes
Haiku has this rather fantasmagorical property: that we always suppose we ourselves can write such things easily.
via On Haiku – Graceguts.
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
via How to Write with Style: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word | Brain Pickings.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.