A closed door has one position; an open door, many.
From Gray Matters, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The woman in the gray house left her back door propped with a brick this morning, and all day the wind moved it. At eight it stood barely a hand's width, at noon it was wide enough that I could see the kitchen table and a bowl of something orange, by four it had swung nearly shut again and then thought better of it. I used to think a door was a yes or a no and that the brick was there to settle the argument. A closed door has one position; an open door, many. Switch went in twice and came out once, which I am still working on. The brick never moved at all, and I notice nobody has thanked it.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
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- The brain is a bundle of nerves.
- Count double the thoughts that precede your actions, half the ones that follow.
- When people say they want to feel better, they usually mean they want to feel less.
- What is spoken barely hints at what is shuttered in.
- If you give a reason for what you’re doing, you’re doing it for a different reason.