"perfidious society masturbators"

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Source : Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Woodcutters”, p.85, Vintage

Thomas Bernhard

“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”
“Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.”

Source : Robert Boswell (1995). “Living to be a hundred: stories”, Harper Perennial
“I have an inate curiosity about people.”
“We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.”
“I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoo-ha.”
“The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.”

Source : "Peter Thiel Talks About the Day Mark Zuckerberg Turned Down Yahoo's $1 Billion". www.inc.com. March 12, 2013.
“Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.”
“There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.”

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