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"Got them 'loan will expire and people are waiting' library blues. Time to crank this to 1.5x speed!" — May 08, 2025 06:57AM
"Got them 'loan will expire and people are waiting' library blues. Time to crank this to 1.5x speed!" — May 08, 2025 06:57AM
And then but so what’s the difference between tennis and suicide, life and death, the game and its own end? It’s always Schtitt who ends up experimenting with some exotic ice-cream flavor, when they arrive. Mario always chickens out and
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Possibly the most important section re: the drive of athleticism and E.T.A. philosophy in general. "The chance to play, yes?" is something I've shouted good-naturedly more than once after taking up this book a few times.
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“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”
― VALIS
― VALIS

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row

“The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat � & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you � so don’t play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr � accept the fact that you’re a criminal & be prepared to act like one.”
― TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
― TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451

“bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this:
WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT,
BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP.
only he didn't say "doggone.”
― Hocus Pocus
WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT,
BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP.
only he didn't say "doggone.”
― Hocus Pocus

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