"Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine."

-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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“It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.”
“I will always dance in the street.”

Source : "Live From..." with Kyra Phillips, edition.cnn.com. January 24, 2006.
“The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.”
“Much of my work has come from being lazy.”
“The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.”
“The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.”

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