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The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality. Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul. What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem? The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985 Life is a zoo in a jungle. Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening. In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. There is no remedy for love but to love more. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk. Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Liberal: a power worshipper without power. I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. Sex is the biggest nothing of all time. Canada: A few acres of snow. It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg. We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one. To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy. The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. My object all sublime I shall achieve in time... Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. |
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