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Television: chewing gum for the eyes. Morality is the weakness of the mind. New York: A third-rate Babylon. Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. Advertising is legalized lying. If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle. Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God. Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. Red is grey and yellow white Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself. Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. Man is more ape than many of the apes. I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers. The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese. The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place. Men have become fools with their tools. Men have become the tools of their tools. Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost? For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook. Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. |
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