You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
- Topic: Action, Communication
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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