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""Why doesn't my father come? Doesn't he know it is time he was stabbed to death? I suppose he expects me to go for him..." -- NG" — Jan 09, 2026 12:15AM
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"Art heals imperfection, like a cowboy who carries a rusty revolver and cries at the sight of a hungry horse." — Jan 06, 2026 02:23AM
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"dork (dôrk) n. 1. an odd, socially awkward, unstylish person. 2. Slang: A stupid, inept, or foolish person. 3. Vulgar Slang: Male genitalia. 4. A used car salesman that thinks he's Tony Soprano. 5. Stephen King. 6. A high school librarian that wears a top hat." — Dec 24, 2025 10:14PM
"dork (dôrk) n. 1. an odd, socially awkward, unstylish person. 2. Slang: A stupid, inept, or foolish person. 3. Vulgar Slang: Male genitalia. 4. A used car salesman that thinks he's Tony Soprano. 5. Stephen King. 6. A high school librarian that wears a top hat." — Dec 24, 2025 10:14PM
“We may come, touch and go, from atoms and ifs but we're presurely destined to be odd's without ends.”
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“You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for the artist.”
― A Life in Letters
― A Life in Letters
“Poseidon sat at his desk, doing figures. The administration of all the waters gave him endless work. [...] It cannot be said that he enjoyed his work; he did it only because it had been assigned to him; in fact, he had already filed many petitions for--as he put it--more cheerful work, but every time the offer of something different was made to him it turned out that nothing suited him quite as well as his present position.”
― Parables and Paradoxes
― Parables and Paradoxes
“And perhaps he had made no mistake at all, his name really was called, it having been the teacher's intention to make the rewarding of the best student at the same time a punishment for the worst one.”
― Parables and Paradoxes
― Parables and Paradoxes
“For instance, supposing that the planet earth were not a sphere but a gigantic coffee table, how much difference in everyday life would that make?”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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