British - Writer | 1968 -
I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!
Tom Hodgkinson
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What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.
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If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.
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Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
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I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.
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You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.
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I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.
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Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with a passion.
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To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.
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We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.
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Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.
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Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
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