"Once youâ€™ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe."

-- Jessica Zafra

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“Nobody does good to men with impunity.”
“Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.”
“As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.”
“An army of experts assured us on a daily basis that this boom couldn't possibly crash like previous booms because this boom was still going on whereas all previous booms had ended.”
“God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.”
“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.”
“Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.”
“I didn't want it to be this way." "Yes, you did," she said, "because it is." "I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life." "Excuse me," she said. "You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.”

Source : Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.29, Penguin

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