"The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning."

-- Albert Camus

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“Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.”
“Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.”
“As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.”
“Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we canâ€™t. Because we donâ€™t really believe we can die.”

Source : Deb Olin Unferth (2010). “Vacation”, p.105, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I tend to attack the challenges that are right in front of me, the ones that I have today.”
“The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.”
“The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.”

Source : States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)
“I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.”

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