"As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realise how insignificant they are." - Peter Cook.
(via David Stubbs)
successor to Thinkige Kru whose feed doesn't seem to be working properly for reasons unknown - the old blog + archive remains here https://thinkigekru.blogspot.com/ -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^vintage thoughts from others, vintage thoughts from me - varying degrees of profundity - thoughts quoted for the turn of thought / phrase rather than for truth value - quoted not necessarily because i agree with them or approve of them - i don't necessarily agree with my own past thinkiges!
" Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hands....
This reminds me of an anecdote from Michael Winner, where he was walking along an idyllic beach in the Bahamas with John Cleese during a magnificent sunset. Cleese looked across the calm blue ocean, sniffed the gentle scented breeze, and then turned to Winner and said:
ReplyDelete"Surely there must be more to life than this, Michael?."
Genius.
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