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IRA vol: Well, we weren’t sending them red roses, that’s for sure. We were in the business of killing the enemy. So was the SAS [the British Army’s Special Air Services regiment]. If they got us, we expected to be wiped out. R O’R: That
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“I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.”
― Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
― Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
“Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.”
― Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
― Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
“Someone had said, and Wilhelm agreed with the saying, that in Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn’t tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.”
― Seize the Day
― Seize the Day
“Oh, let everything pass and be forgotten—and again in two hundred years’ time an ambitious failure will vent his frustration on the simpletons dreaming of a good life (that is if there does not come my kingdom, where everyone keeps to himself and there is no equality and no authorities—but if you don’t want it, I don’t insist and don’t care).”
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“At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, principle is desire. Gravity, light, magnetism, thought may be aspects of the same universal longing. Suffering, emptiness, darkness are nothing more than interruptions of a cosmic orgasm that grows forever in intensity...”
― Enemies: A Love Story
― Enemies: A Love Story
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