"How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?"

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Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “Reuben, Reuben: A Novel”, p.313, University of Chicago Press

Peter De Vries

#Pairs Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”
“And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.”

Source : Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.156, Ronin Publishing
“There is no substitute for knowledge.”
“Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brÃ»lÃ©e, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.”
“If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.”
“All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.”
“Time is clay. Go make something.”
“I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal."”

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