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Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.
— Tom Hodgkinson
I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
— Tom Hodgkinson
What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.
— Tom Hodgkinson
If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.
— Tom Hodgkinson
I'm starting to wonder if taking hostages was such a good idea.
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.
— Tom Hodgkinson
In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.
— Tom Hodgkinson
When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Stop shooting! You'll scratch the fucking paint!
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
No! Be weak! Give up! You can't do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.
— Tom Hodgkinson
It's easier to robe the poor.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Being safe is fiction.
— Tom Hodgkinson
It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .
— Tom Hodgkinson
Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society
— Tom Hodgkinson
Take responsibility for our lives and recognize that we choose how we react to situations and that we can choose to be free if we so wish.
— Tom Hodgkinson
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
— Tom Hodgkinson
I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.
— Tom Hodgkinson
We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Life is about recapturing lost freedoms..
— Tom Hodgkinson
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.
— Tom Hodgkinson
The dress means no harm, after all. And it is new. It carries nothing inside it but the possible beginnings of her downfall.
— Amanda Hodgkinson
There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Whether you live in the city or in the country, creating time for a leisurely ramble is an easy thing to do.
— Tom Hodgkinson
We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves
— Tom Hodgkinson
Well, you know what I always say: 'overkill is better than underkill'!
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?
— Tom Hodgkinson
I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.
— Tom Hodgkinson
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Travelling fills me with dread.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with a passion.
— Tom Hodgkinson
If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.
— Tom Hodgkinson
The sound in my headphones ceased to exist, but somehow that's when I truly heard everything.
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
Don't insult the hair.
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
Sweet dreams, motherfucker!
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.
— Tom Hodgkinson
I'm no stranger to murder.
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Suddenly, Kaiser Corbane came outta nowhere! They thought they were safe! THEY WERE WRONG!
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.
— Tom Hodgkinson
One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
— Tom Hodgkinson
Career is just posh slavery.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.
— Amanda Hodgkinson
So wait, shooting someone seventeen times isn't okay, but shooting him seventeen times with a fifteen-round magazine doesn't raise questions?
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
— Tom Hodgkinson
It's been a long and trying day... but I'm still running with half a gallon of rage in my tank.
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook.
— Tom Hodgkinson
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
It's gonna be a long day.
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.
— Tom Hodgkinson
It seems no body's business to try to better things
— Tom Hodgkinson
You don't scare me, Mary Poppins!
— Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.
— Tom Hodgkinson
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
— Tom Hodgkinson
If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!
— Tom Hodgkinson
When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?
— Tom Hodgkinson
Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.
— Tom Hodgkinson