Communication is about what is received, not what is intended. If there is a gap between what you are saying and what they are hearing, you have to find a new way to say it.
—James Clear, 3-2-1
Hoje em dia já ninguém lá vai, aquilo está cheio de gente
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Um homem casa não apenas com a mulher, mas também com os amigos dela.
—Somerset Maugham, Ashenden o Agente Britânico, ASA 2021 (1927)
When you’re younger, it’s easy to underestimate how fleeting the days can be. Each choice matters. Each day matters.
When you’re older, it’s easy to underestimate how much opportunity you still have. Don’t talk yourself out of it. It’s never too late to start.
—James Clear, 3-2-1
Por várias vezes lhe tinham dito que era um homem de carácter, e naquele momento ocorreu-lhe que as pessoas julgam irreflectidamente as questões da vida por o fazerem com base em evidências insuficientes: nunca o tinham visto dentro de uma banheira de água quente que começava a arrefecer.
—Somerset Maugham, Ashenden o Agente Britânico, ASA 2021 (1927)
For Christ sake write and don’t worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what. I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket…
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you.
—Ernest Hemingway, carta para F. Scott Fitzgerald, 28 de Maio de 1924