"Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base."

-- Jack Gleeson

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“Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.”
“Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.”

Source : Vivian Vande Velde (2004). “Heir Apparent”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands that will certainly never be able to pay the rent, because music has been devalued.”
“We're just physically not physical enough.”

Source : "COLLEGE BASKETBALL; A Reversal: St.John's Has Cause To Cheer" by Malcolm Moran, www.nytimes.com. January 14, 1996.
“I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.”
“Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.”

Source : "Gavyn Davies does the maths". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.
“The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.”

Source : Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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