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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions. It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex. If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. History is bunk. Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze. Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football. Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. A married man with a family will do anything for money. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. Few great men could pass Personnel. Great men are not always idiots. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. There is more to life than increasing its speed. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it. Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable. Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations. The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. I hate women because they always know where things are. Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Truth is shorter than fiction. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. Love will find a lay. The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. |
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