"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Life Quotes #Nice Quotes #Numbness Quotes

“O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!”

Source : James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.116
“You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.”
“Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Youâ€™re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. Youâ€™re buying judgment.”
“A few weeks later, Iâ€™m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. Iâ€™m sitting next to a guy whoâ€™s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like weâ€™re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. Heâ€™s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God heâ€™s not a genius.”
“It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.”

Source : Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, bermangraphics.com. 2011.
“Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?”
“I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.”

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