“Chutes and Ladders was perhaps the most sadistic board game ever invented. Adults loathed the game; children loved it. The universe thus dictated that an adult invariably got snookered into playing the game with a child.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“Oh, God—the lives people try to lead. Oh, God—what a world they try to lead them in!”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta
“Surely we all dealt with and reconciled ourselves to a life many of whose features were out of our control. It was part of living in a world full of other people with other interests.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“I simply must say, as crass as we are conditioned by a troubled society to regard the word, I am a firm believer in the comparative merits of the word ‘fuck.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
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