The Unavenged Quotes

“Napoleon once said, ‘When in doubt, do nothing.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“they all watched me leave with varying expressions of dislike. That was OK. They weren’t on my Christmas card list either.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“He had this theory that you could draw a line from the Netherlands south to Italy, and everyone east of that line was autistic. His reasoning went something like: “They’re all so fuckin’ literal! All of ’em! You say, ‘Go screw yerself,’ they say, ‘I sink zis vill hurt.’ I told a guy, ‘Get off my fuckin’ back, Boris!’ He says, ‘I am sittink on my chair, ent my name is Peter. Everysink you get wrong!’ They take everything literal!”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“What did you see?” ​“The great joke,” he said, and laughed again. “The huge, terrible, absurd cosmic joke. I can tell you, there is no right, there is no wrong, there is no death, there is no pain…,”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“we are all driven by either the desire for what we haven’t got, or the desire to get away from what we have got—most often it’s both. So we are all basically selfish. Only sometimes what we want benefits others, sometimes more and other times less.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“the stupid schmuck driven by some misguided sense of loyalty, who is willing to lay himself down and go through hell in order to serve somebody else’s purpose, through loyalty.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“Surely the characteristic that defined the human race was the willingness to destroy other people in order to achieve our own purpose.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“She looked like an Aryan Presbyterian who’d just been reminded Jesus was a rabbi.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“The flaw with Einstein’s definition of insanity is that sometimes you have to do something more than once to get any result at all.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“All that was missing was the tagline, “It’s never been so easy to become a god!”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged

“When you put men into uniforms, they leave their humanity in the changing rooms.”
― Blake Banner, The Unavenged