“Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?”
Jack Gilbert
more infosource: “Jack Gilbert, The Art of Poetry No. 91,” interviewed by Ted Widmer, in Issue 175 of The Paris Review, Fall/Winter 2005.
category: car, life, materialism, observation, poet, school of life, vacation, values
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“Why do some of the current Mercedes models have no dipstick, for example? What are the attractions of being disburdened of involvement with our own stuff?
Matthew B. Crawford
more infosource: Shop Class as Soulcraft (New York: Penguin, 2009), 7.
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“There are only two things you can throw out the window of a moving car, legally. Do you know what they are?…Water. And feathers. Everything else you can get in trouble for.”
Tom Waits
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