Quote by Voltaire: “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one”
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I had a friend in New York, years ago, who was certain about everything.
I mean everything. The right way to make eggs. The correct decade for jazz. Which neighborhoods were finished and which were ascendant. Whether a particular novelist was overrated. Whether your relationship was going to work out. He delivered these verdicts the way a judge reads a sentence. Calmly, finally, and with the assumption that everyone in the room had been waiting for him to speak.
He was, for about a year, the mos
I mean everything. The right way to make eggs. The correct decade for jazz. Which neighborhoods were finished and which were ascendant. Whether a particular novelist was overrated. Whether your relationship was going to work out. He delivered these verdicts the way a judge reads a sentence. Calmly, finally, and with the assumption that everyone in the room had been waiting for him to speak.
He was, for about a year, the mos
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