Adam Cardais

Writer & Editor

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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

Goethe

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Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Renting hell in New York City: how my hoarder landlady ruined my life

Steven W Thrasher paid $1,000 a month for a Brooklyn renter’s dream – a sprawling apartment on a beautiful tree-lined block – that was too good to be true

Brilliant essay in The Guardian on the hell that is the New York City real estate market.

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Word of the Week

Sidereal: of or relating to stars or constellations.

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The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Dr. Frank Barron

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Word of the Week

Amanuensis: a literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts.

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Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Abraham Lincoln

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Word of the Week

Oleaginous: containing or producing oil; marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality.

from Chickens, Home to Roost, Maureen Dowd’s recent column on Donald Trump

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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died."

William Faulkner

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Word of the Week

Keelhaul: to rebuke severely.

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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Pablo Picasso

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Word of the Week

Treacle: contrived or unrestrained sentimentality.

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. ... Lies will pass into history.

George Orwell

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Word of the Week

Importunate: troublesomely urgent; overly persistent in request or demand.

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent van Gogh

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Word of the Week

Mugwump: a person who is politically neutral.

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

Joan Didion