I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
A. J. JACOBSI love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He’s wrathful, but at other times, He’s incredibly compassionate. He’s not a one-dimensional figure at all.
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I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it’ll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It’s like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re walking around looking like you’re about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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