“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
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“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)
I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”
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“Noto que todas las psicoterapias, todos mis esfuerzos de adaptación, este vivir en la Tierra, mi apariencia decente o más o menos normal de los últimos años, es sólo un barniz o una forma de simulación, que se desvanece como por encanto apenas me pongo a escribir, a pensar, a intentar rescatarme de mis depresiones, a enfrentar la idea de la muerte que la necesidad de operarme me ha generado —cuando busco los resortes de la vida y la esperanza, me encuentro con estas cosas, siempre ellas, queridas cosas.”
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