"At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

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“Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.”

Source : Song: Ghetto Prisioners, Album: I Am..., 1999
“The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing”
“The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.85, Heinemann
“In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.”
“Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.”

Source : John Fante (1990). “Prologue to Ask the Dust”
“Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.”
“I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.”
“People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.”

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