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I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.
A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.
if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.
if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything, don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut, don’t do it.
no concept of danger, reality, flow or compassion. you can feel the despair escaping from their machines, their lives as hopeless and as numbed as yours.
You better keep your lane on this race of reaching out for our dreams and goals
Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle
You made me face something I should have faced a long time ago. I'm grateful. And I should have never asked you to leave. You don't ask someone you to love to walk out of your life
Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)
Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....
Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?
With the right tools, you can write anything ...
I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such trouble for fractious, ungrateful me.
That's your mom, right?" Pathik smiled. "She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.
Did it do me any good, early in life, to believe so many things which were not true? Or did it damage me? Pouring a foundation of disappointment, of uncertainty.
But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious.
Wyatt didn't want it, but without his permission, his heart started beating again. It had always beat for Tabitha.
Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.
The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty
Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage
Only a master weaver could intertwine dark and light threads in such a way that all one saw was beauty when looking back at the finished tapestry.
But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy.
... but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.
While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global
Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can’t imagine being different than you are.
And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.
Sometimes things happen that give me cause to believe I no longer exist. Car park barriers which do not lift when I drive towards them, automatic doors which do not open automatically as I approach.
What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him drum, by taking pleasure in it, for pleasure is almost always a waste of time.
They say opposites attract. Nobody ever said opposites live happily ever after.
You know what they say, ' Suz had texted. 'Once you go geek, you never go back.
I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me.
This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting in my blood, papercutting the lining of my veins.