“I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.” — Tim Kreider, “The ‘Busy’ Trap,” New York Times (2012-06-30)
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“We think that life is long, because art is so, and that, because we have much to do, it is well worth doing.” — William Hazlitt, Lectures On The Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth
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“There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.” — Samuel Johnson, The Idler N° 48 (1759-03-17)
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“The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son, September 30, 1757
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“Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.” — Tim Kreider, The ‘Busy’ Trap
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