"Even paranoids have real enemies."

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Source : Delmore Schwartz (1987). “The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

Delmore Schwartz

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“I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.”
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”
“The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth. But the economic education needed to reduce such ignorance must be based on austere, objective, scientific contentâ€”with no ideological or moral content of its own.”
“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
“We want perfect elections, not just any kind of elections. And it's the electoral commission that organizes elections in the country - this is what most people forget. We have an independent commission which, acccording to our constitution, is in charge of organizing elections.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun; so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.”
“Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.”

Source : Besant, Walter (2014). “Dorothy Forster”, p.73, Read Books Ltd
“Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry”

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