"Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose."

-- Sholom Aleichem

#Lying Quotes #Simple Quotes #Jew Quotes

“Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)”
“I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did'”
“We've played with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones. You name any punk band and we've probably played or toured with them all the way up to and including Soundgarden, who we've toured with three times now. We also toured with Metallica for a year. But yeah, Megadeth was the only one we were a little sketchy about because um, it was a little sketchy.”
“Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so its probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.”
“Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation, why the work is done a in a particular way, and because the art of calculating is a practical occupation, it is clear that it is pertinent to concern oneself with the theory.”
“You have to be more disciplined every day to get better and learn the game.”
“I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that whatâ€™s at stake isnâ€™t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.”
“I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.”

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