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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

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up. — 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 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

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

The job was invented in order to make things easier for those at the top. — 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

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.. — 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

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

The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today. — Tom Hodgkinson

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m. — Tom Hodgkinson

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves — 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

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

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against. — Tom Hodgkinson

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets. — Tom 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

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

Travelling fills me with dread. — Tom Hodgkinson

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks. — Tom Hodgkinson

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient. — 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

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure. — Tom Hodgkinson

The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook. — Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. — 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

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens. — Tom 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

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

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

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen. — 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

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

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

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together. — 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