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“But I went out of my way,” he said with a smile that lifted lifelessly as if by hooks, “to keep you entertained.”
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
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“Sometimes the principal emotion of the person arrested is relief and even happiness! This is another aspect of human nature. It happened before the Revolution too: the Yekaterinodar schoolteacher Serdyukova, involved in the case of Aleksandr Ulyanov, felt only relief when she was arrested. But this feeling was a thousand times stronger during epidemics of arrests when all around you they were hauling in people like yourself and still had not come for you; for some reason they were taking their time. After all, that kind of exhaustion, that kind of suffering, is worse than any kind of arrest, and not only for a person of limited courage.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.”
― Crying With Laughter: My Life Story
― Crying With Laughter: My Life Story
“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
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