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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

"... sometimes it pays to mend other people's fences."

"... there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."

"... from the moment of birth every living organism carries within it the seeds of its own destruction."

"... one patch of waste merging with another..."

"... know that there will be neither apocalypse nor last judgement ... such things would serve no purpose since the world will quite happily fall apart by itself and go to wrack and ruin so that everything may begin again, and so proceed ad infinitum, and this is as perfectly clear... as our helpless orbiting in space: once started it cannot be stopped."

"SOMETIME IN THE dawn hours of the first day of a post-American life, passing from a brief moment of hopefulness into the outer fringes of what-ever it is that's coming, Hicks has been dreaming he's someplace back on the prairie, in an old lopsided telephone booth warped by the wind, snowed and hailed on, run into by cars and farm wagons, assaulted by hungry drifters looking for all those nickels in the box."

Vladboys = Hitlerboys = Proudboys

"Turnip loaf again, remind me to have the chef impaled."

"Dippy Chazz's usual Wisconsin Old Fashioned shows up, Korbel brandy, 7UP lithiated lemon soda, and, sharing the toothpick with a cherry, a pickled Brussels sprout."

Al Capone meets Al Capone di Formaggio 🧀

This is a hoot.

"The lone worker will never escape from his life of poverty for ever and ever; he will go on existing in affliction as long as man is not man's protector, but his worst enemy. The life of the lone worker, the life of the independent man, is in its nature a flight from other men, who seek to kill him."

"For if ideals aim not at improving the lot of mankind on earth, but at slaughtering men by the million, one may well ask whether it wouldn't be more praiseworthy to be wholly devoid of ideals, though such a life would naturally be a very empty one. For if ideals are not life, and life is not ideals, what are ideals? And what is life?"

"The source of the greatest song is sympathy."

"For a moment he stared panic-stricken at that old face, which held no hope but endured everything."

"... two human beings have such difficulty in understanding each other, there is nothing so tragical as two human beings."

"Supernatural, perhaps ... baloney, perhaps not." - Bela Lugosi, The Black Cat

Jesuspeter, tapeworms and coffee.