James Richardson Quotes - Page 2

• It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

  James Richardson

  Empty, Empty Seats, Seats

  James Richardson (2016). “By the Numbers”, p.63, Copper Canyon Press

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• It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

  James Richardson

  Opposites, Rivers, Smell

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• Too much apology doubles the offense.

  James Richardson

  Apology, Too Much, Offense

  James Richardson (2010). “By the Numbers”, p.38, Copper Canyon Press

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• I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.

  James Richardson

  Doe, Slow Down, Brown

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