"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."

-- Frank Zappa

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“It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.”
“This person called up and said, You've got to come and take this seminar. It will completely change your life in just one weekend. And I said, Well, I don't want to completely change my life this weekend. I've got a lot of things to do on Monday.”
“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”
“Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.”
“I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.”
“It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.”
“I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.”
“If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.”

Source : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.11, Atlantic Books Ltd

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