Carson Cistulli Quotes

born 1979 United States

Carson Cistulli (born 23 December 1979) is an American poet and journalist. He is the author of Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated, A Century of Enthousiasm, and Assorted Fictions.

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Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all—those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.

A Century of Enthusiasm (2007)

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated (2006)

Many people say, “Who's my doppelganger?” when maybe
they should ask, “Whose doppelganger am I?”

Assorted Fictions (2006)

Race ain’t nothing but a number.

The New Enthusiast - Selected Aphorisms #78 (2011)

If a tree falls in the woods and no one’s around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that’s played with no one around to watch it, though — that’s a different proposition.

Day 468—said the word ‘finger’ until it no longer made sense. Now, looking at my fingers I have no idea what they are,
except they’re wildly useful
for writing letters to my earliest ancestors

Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carson Cistulli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.