"The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about."

-- Stanley Crouch

#Self Quotes #Talking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back.”

Source : Joey Comeau (2009). “Overqualified”, E C W Press
“To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.196, Spiegel & Grau
“I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.”
“Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.”

Source : "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.
“Technology is super smart and also completely dumb. It doesn't know what you're putting on there. It works almost in an automated fashion.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!”
“Well, thatâ€™s interesting,â€ I said. â€œWhatâ€™s interesting?â€ Jack called from the other room. â€œSomething is interesting?â€ Lend shouted. â€œNo! Nothing!”
“People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.”

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