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The pedestrian is the highest and most mighty of beings; he walks for pleasure, he observes but does not interfere, he is not in a hurry, he is happy in the company of his own mind, he wanders detached, wise and merry, godlike. He is free.
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The tempo of modern life is such that we are giving less and less time and thought to the matter of cooking and feeding . . . it is a pretty crazy life when one eats to work and does not work in order to eat.
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How much more fun life must have been when we went around on horses, chatting to strangers, leaning over gates, leaping over fences, singing with joy, being at one with nature, its animals and its weather.
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Tom Hodgkinson |
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You must find out who you are and proceed on the basis of that knowledge.
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This is possibly what drove Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain to early graves. They could not handle being cogs. They could not handle monetizing their content. That was not the reason they become bohemian singers.
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Tom Hodgkinson |
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But if you don't address financial issues in a grown-up fashion, you'll end up poor, which is no fun at all.
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A diet of solely mental work is suffocating.
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Screens make us into passive receivers. Smash the screen and find a pencil and a piece of paper instead.
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Tom Hodgkinson |
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Making stuff is easy. Selling it is not.
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Tom Hodgkinson |
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If you're not very careful, your creative business, the very thing which you hoped would lead to liberty and riches, will instead trap you in a hell of hard-working poverty.
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