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Reading well is one of the great pleasures

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.