“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it”
Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) just tweeted that horrific platitude this morning. I had to unfollow him the last time he tweeted something like that. I forgave and mostly forgot and started following him again. Now he comes up with that gem. I understand the allusion and may I just say that "you smell not by taking a dump, but by failing to wipe it!"
It's not that the platitude is offensive, but rather that my expectations were high.
Coelho is a wonderful author, surely such platitudes are beneath him. Or maybe not.
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