Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Related:
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without
individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's... - That was a pointing device?
My cat thought it was dinner... - I've sometimes thought of marrying -
and then I've thought again... - I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven... - The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return
to thought,
and to itself. --... - COPYING MACHINE:
A device that shreds paper, flashes mysteriously coded messages,
and makes duplicates for everyone in the office who... - Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is
trying to be funny.
- Guy... - Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is quite staggering. ... - device not
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