It is as difficult to change someone’s opinions as it is to change his tastes.
Quotations
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done to you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
