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. JACOBSIn trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There’s something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
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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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There’s a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.
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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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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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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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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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