"Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes"

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Source : Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

Luigi Pirandello

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“After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.”
“Keeping a journal implies hope.”
“I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.”
“[To beginning readers (ages 4 to 8) at a reading of "Noelle's Treasure Tale"]: If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.”
“I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.”
“It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.”
“I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.
“I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.”

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