His strongest wish was to purchase his children; but, though he several times offered his hard earnings for that purpose, he never succeeded.
“He honestly meant to save the Pez for watching TV that night—he liked to load them into the little plastic Pez-Gun’s handgrip one by one, liked to hear the accepting click of the small spring inside, and liked most of all to shoot them into his mouth one by one, like a kid committing suicide by sugar.”
― It
― It
“Belch had nearly collapsed with the deliciousness of his wit.”
― It
― It
“Bill Maher ends every episode of his HBO show Real Time with a monologue. The topics are usually political. This was not the case, however, on May 12, 2017, when Maher looked into the camera and said: The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.”
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
“More than anyone I’d ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art,”
― Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
― Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren’t perfect.”
― The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
― The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
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