"If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living."

“Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.14, Everyman's Library

“You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe it! Every comic and most of the actors I know had a childhood full of love. Then they grew up and found out that in the grown-up world, you don't get all that love, you just get your share. So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.”

“I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.”

“I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.”

“When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.”

“Boredom and booze--cause and effect.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

“Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.”

“At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.”