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JAMES RICHARDSON

Few plans survive their first success, which suggests they were less about their goals than about the possibility of a little success.

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JAMES RICHARDS

The days are in order, the months, the seasons, the years. But the weeks are work. They have no names; they repeat.

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The reader lives faster than life, the writer lives slower.

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JAMES RICHARDSON

Beware of speaking of The Rich as if they were someone else

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I need someone above meβ€”the Committee, the Law, Money, Timeβ€”to be able to say No. Sad my lack of integrity, though I suppose it would be sadder to need them to say Yes.

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We've learned to wonder which neutralizes truth more effectively, the tyranny's censorship or the democracy's ten thousand media outlets. In the former truth is too costly, in the latter there's no market for it. In Freud the facts get around the censor in the metaphor...

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How proud we are of our multitasking. What is Life but something to get off our desks, cross off our lists?

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Too much apology doubles the offense

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Selfsufficiency clings...to itself.

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Sophistication is upscale conformity.

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As I thumbed through my copy of The Best American Poetry 2011, I rediscovered James Richardson's Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays from Vectors 3.0.

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