"Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love"

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Source : Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

Hans Zinsser

#War Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Dark Quotes

“What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators....”
“If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.”
“I don't wear ties to work. And I don't shave.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 3, 2017
“I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.”
“Death is the great wrecking ball that destroys everything. Everything that we have done, everything that we are doing now, and all our plans for the future are completely and irrevocably destroyed when we die. Only teenagers live in that state of temporary insanity when they believe themselves immune from death.”
“The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.”

Source : "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.
“My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.”

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