“The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) ...We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
"Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another."
“Love is the ultimate outlaw.”
“As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.”
“Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.”
“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is the more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.”
“You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.”
“Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.”
“Anybody who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. In fact, the person who maintains absolute standards of good and evil usually is the maniac with the revolver.”
And finally, sigh,
“Reality is subjective, and there's an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as 'important' only if it's sober and severe. Your Cheerful Dumb are not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly LIKE themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”
So, it's back to life tomorrow. I have to choose not to shut down. Hopefully, we will have good news soon.
1 comment:
Those were great!
No, you can't shut down. Neither can I or any other pap we know. We can do this ;)
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