The Importance of Living

Lin Yutang says of his work: "This is a testimony of my own experience of thought and life.

It is not intended to be objective and makes no claim to establish eternal truths.

In fact I rather despise claims to to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing."



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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

-Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living, 1937

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

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