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“Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it’s too late.”
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“Etwas Besseres als den Tod findest du überall.”
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“On my way out of [Atlantic City] at quarter after seven in the morning, a young pump jockey at the gas station [...] mentioned that another man had lost $20,000 at Trop World a few hours earlier and had to be dragged out of the casino kicking and screaming. I asked if this happened a lot. "Man," he said, "there's a whole world of losers out there, and sooner or later they all end up here. Only they don't think they're losers. When they find out, it's like the surprise of their life.”
― The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
― The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
“Explaining basic probability to a group of people can be best qualified as futile.”
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“Once, in the South Atlantic, I saw a whaler in the process of killing a female accompanied by one of her offspring. The harpooner, a red-bearded Irishman, kept putting harpoons into the whale. The intestines were hanging out of the mangled body of the huge animal, and nevertheless it continued to swim back and forth in the water made red by its blood, trying with its shattered body to shield the little whale. Since then, and the sight of that harpooner's freckled face as he laughed derisively, and of that poor creature, faithful to the end, I have believed in the existence of Satan as I believe in the existence of God.”
― Diary of a Man in Despair
― Diary of a Man in Despair
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