Hellenic Immortal Quotes

“Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“Morning conversations should be between very close friends or lovers, and otherwise avoided entirely.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“...while there may have been gods, they weren't particularly well defined. If, for instance, something unusually lucky happened, one might declare that a god--pick one--was feeling generous that day. And if a particularly bad thing happened, a god (usually a different one) was upset about something or other. Gods, in other words, were what most of us would now call chance or luck. And in that sense they served their purpose, by making a random existence seem less random.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“The thing is, we all have a little animal in us, and if you ask us to, we can do a very good job of behaving like one.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“To ward off these disasters, they spent a whole lot of time trying to keep their gods happy via a number of complex rituals, many involving copious amounts of sex ("the gods wish us to have sex" is the oldest pickup line in the world).”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“[M]ost of the people I have ever met who claim not to care about money already have more than they could ever need.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“Karyos's people adopted an ingenious, if somewhat perplexing attitude that life was a circle. Not like Disney's circle of life thing, which was really just a nice way to say, "death is normal, children, so suck it up.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“Amazingly, deconstructionists and cultural relativists were almost never stoned, which meant the crap they were spouting came to them when they were in a non-altered state, so they were invariably fairly stupid, or at least not nearly as smart as they thought they were.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“but still; if I’m at the center of your religion, something has gone horribly wrong with your religion.) ”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“(Yes, I had disabled a six foot five satyr, caught him, and hoisted him into a chair without dropping my beer. If you think that’s unlikely, you don’t know how I feel about beer.)”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“I WOULD GO TO ATHENS. FOR IT IS ONLY IN ATHENS THAT I MAY SPEND ALL MORN ARGUING REAL TRUTHS WITH A PHILOSOPHER, ALL AFTERNOON WATCHING CLEVER LIES FROM A DRAMATURG, AND ALL NIGHT DRINKING LIES INTO TRUTHS WITH A SENATOR.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“THE ONLY MADNESS GREATER THAN CHALLENGING FATE IS ACCEPTING IT.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“Whenever I think about the Enkidu story, I think Kipling really missed out on a much better ending for The Jungle Book.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“To ward off these disasters, they spent a whole lot of time trying to keep their gods happy via a number of complex rituals, many involving copious amounts of sex (“the gods wish us to have sex” is the oldest pickup line in the world) and human sacrifice. And whoever happened to be their king was also a god, which simplified the political process quite a lot.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“Most every old civilizations looks at others--members of the same species but not of the same tribe--as wild men. It's a common rationalization, because when you reduce someone else to a level of something like an animal, it makes them easier to kill.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“[K]nowing one's fate never made a whit of difference, except it made the fated a tad more anxious.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal

“[T]here may be no more depressing place on the planet than the floor of a casino.”
― Gene Doucette, Hellenic Immortal