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“If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have nerve enough to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.”
A fatling is any young animal fattened for slaughter.
“Her only crime was to have allowed a monster to ejaculate in her birth canal. These things happen to the best of women.”
“It was free will that did all the damage.
the idea that a man from a rich and powerful Indianapolis family would be allowed to marry a woman whose family didn’t have a pot to piss in, as long as she had the manners and tastes of a rich girl, turned out to be as dumb as trying to sell balloons with blobs of moistened clay inside.
he painted pictures that astonished him with their importance, even though nobody else thought they were worth a damn,
“There is no way an unassisted human brain, which is nothing more than a dog’s breakfast, three and a half pounds of blood-soaked sponge, could have written ‘Stardust,’ let alone Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.”
we shouldn’t be seeking harrowing challenges, but rather tasks we find natural and interesting, tasks we were apparently born to perform.
Article XXIX: Every adult who needs it shall be given meaningful work to do, at a living wage.
Listen: We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different!
Many people need desperately to receive this message: “I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone.”
Adam and Eve, more in love than they have ever been before, tell Him that they like life all right, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
You think the ancient Romans were smart? Look at how dumb their numbers were. One theory of why they declined and fell is that their plumbing was lead. The root of our word plumbing is plumbum, the Latin word for “lead.” Lead poisoning makes people stupid and lazy. What’s your excuse?
young people liked movies with a lot of shooting because they showed that dying didn’t hurt at all, that people with guns could be thought of as “free-lance anesthetists.”
