alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
“There’s a way of looking at this where I’m the hero who chops through the bullshit and oppression in order to come out the other end with a spoonful of freedom.”
― Console Wars: Sega Vs Nintendo - and the Battle that Defined a Generation
― Console Wars: Sega Vs Nintendo - and the Battle that Defined a Generation
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“There’s only one thing you need to know to survive in this world.” “And what’s that?” “The name of the game is the game,”
― Console Wars: Sega Vs Nintendo - and the Battle that Defined a Generation
― Console Wars: Sega Vs Nintendo - and the Battle that Defined a Generation
“the only thing it takes to sell toys, vitamins, or magazines is the power of story. That was the secret. That was the whole trick: to recognize that the world is nothing but chaos, and the only thing holding it (and us) together are stories.”
― Console Wars: Sega Vs Nintendo - and the Battle that Defined a Generation
― Console Wars: Sega Vs Nintendo - and the Battle that Defined a Generation
“One of the perils of not participating in politics is that you have to be ruled upon by people who are less deserving than you.”
― Arvind Kejriwal: Dare to Fight
― Arvind Kejriwal: Dare to Fight
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