music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
Interpretation
Engaging in creative activities and physical exercise can help alleviate boredom.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of engaging in various artistic and intellectual pursuits, such as music, drawing, reading, and invention, along with physical activities like exercise, as valuable tools to combat feelings of boredom and ennui. He suggests that these resources can enrich one's life and stimulate the mind, thereby keeping monotony at bay.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming boredom with creativity, one might say, 'As Thomas Jefferson once said, music, drawing, books, invention, and exercise can be great resources against ennui.'
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along with the images that go on the screen, there's a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you're aware of it or not.
I do most of the cooking in my head.
In a way, the characters often do take over.
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
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