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Against Happiness: I... 03/06 Sam is currently reading:
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy (Hardcover)
by Eric G. Wilson
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Making Globalization... 03/18 Sam is currently reading:
Making Globalization Work (Hardcover)
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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The Spanish Prisoner... 03/17 Sam is currently reading:
The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays (Paperback)
by David Mamet
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March 12, 2008
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"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."Tom Waits
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."Leonard Cohen
March 07, 2008
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March 06, 2008
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"the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past to die"
Saul Williams
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"I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought."
Saul Williams
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Sam "The Record Man" wrote Home: napkin's provide great literary options..

"I've never had that place where I knew I belonged. I've never really known "home"in the s" ...more
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943387 Sam wrote: "I worked at "Veritas" in NYC... Bourdain was always wandering into the kitchen to drink with our exe...more "

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March 04, 2008
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"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."Groucho Marx
March 03, 2008
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Cat's Cradle Sam "The Record Man" gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Cat's Cradle (Paperback)
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Hunter S. Thompson
"When the going gets weird the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson


"To accomplish nothing and die of the strain"
— E.M. Cioran


Émile Michel Cioran
"If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot."
Émile Michel Cioran


"Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive."
— E. M. Cioran


P.J. O'Rourke
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
P.J. O'Rourke


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