"My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace."

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Source : "The Military Quotation Book". Book by James Charlton (p. 114), 2002.

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“Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.”

Source : "Bad Signal". Comic book by Warren Ellis, 2003.
“The minute you're born, you're getting older.”
“By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.”
“When I was a kid I would get upset when people laughed at me when I didn't mean to be funny. I would always hear,'We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you.' But I would say, 'I'm not laughing.”
“I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on the first day, and they told us to write about what we did over the summer. I can't remember exactly, but I think I walked out exactly at that point and went to the office to ask for my money back.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Throughout my life, I have been fascinated by predictability and frustrated by our inability to predict. I don't believe it makes sense for our generation to believe or pretend that we can solve the problems of the future because do not understand what these problems will be. Just do this thought experiment: Imagine you're in month of May 1914, and try to work out a plan of action for the next 100 years! Hardly anything will make sense.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The hardest diet I was ever on was the one when I was fat. You can only wear fat clothes, you don't feel good, your sex life gets damaged, you don't have energy for anything. It's horrible.”
“Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.60, Gibbs Smith

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