"Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity."

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Source : "Mark Leyner on 'War, Inc.'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.

Mark Leyner

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.”
“I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.”
“Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.”
“The interior life is often stupid.”
“The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.”

Source : Henry Maudsley (1895). “The Pathology of Mind”
“I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.”
“Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.”
“The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.”

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