"Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?" -Spader"

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D. J. MacHale

#Accordions Quotes

“Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, 1989.
“I have more critics than Hitler.”
“According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.
“It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.”
“So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.”
“I'm a future legend. And you're the legend killer.”
“Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.”
“One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.”

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