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Lenny Bruce
“The truth is 'what is.' If 'what is' is, you have to sleep eight, ten hours a day, that is the truth. A lie will be: People need no sleep at all. Truth is 'what is.' If every politician from the beginning is crooked, there is no crooked. But if you are concerned with a lie, 'what should be'-and 'what should be' is a fantasy, a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago: This is what should be-and no one ever saw what should be, that you don't need any sleep and you can go seven years without sleep, so that all the people were made to measure up to that dirty lie. You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never a truth.”
Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

Remco Campert
“De camera staat nu op zijn kop. Met mijn voeten hang ik aan de straten van de stad, mijn hoofd zwabbert in de leegte. Trams slaan vonken uit de ruimte. Lantaarnpalen breken los uit het trottoir en storten de diepte in.
De regisseur is verliefd geworden op zijn effect en vergeet z'n levensgevaarlijk rondscharrelende hoofdrolspeler. Ik raak verward in de glanzend berijpte takken van een boom.”
Remco Campert, Het leven is vurrukkulluk

Mieko Kawakami
“But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”
Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

Remco Campert
“Tussen de vele stemmen van mensen
is jouw stem de enige
die menselijk is
die weet van het verdriet
dat langzaam in de bomen groeit
gevoed door de aarde
tot ze oud worden
sterven aan de rand van wilde
of onzindelijke tuinen.”
Remco Campert, De gedichten

Lenny Bruce
“I don’t want a sharp chick who quotes Kerouac; I just want to hear my old lady say, “Get up and fix the toilet, it’s still making noise.”
Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography

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