"Having just enough life to enjoy being dead."

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Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.269, Profile Books

Jim Holt

#Enough Quotes #Enjoy Quotes

“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”
“I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.”
“Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.”
“What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?”

Source : Patrick Jones (2007). “Nailed”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.”
“If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.”
“Good night, and good luck.”
“Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?”

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