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Is right that ugly plastic statue of Paul Bunyan in front of City Center? Oh, if I had a truckful of napalm and my old Zippo lighter I’d take care of that fucking thing, I assure you . . .
“As an old friend of mine once said when I brought him some interesting brownies, ‘You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes,’” she replied. “Haven’t you read your Maimonides?”
― Egg & Spoon
― Egg & Spoon
“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
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“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Henry Adams: “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
― The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
― The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
“During an illustrative lunch at one of the restaurants, a Rego Park deli called Ben’s Best Kosher Delicatessan, which is known for its pastrami, Matsil asked the owner, Jay Parker, the original Ben’s son, a white-haired, trim man who had just returned from climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, what he thought of the QueensWay. “I love it, it’s a no-brainer,” he said. “It’s like bingo. You can put bingo in a Catholic church, a Jewish synagogue, a Muslim mosque, a Buddhist temple—doesn’t matter. Bingo works for everybody, QueensWay works for everybody.”
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