"What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous"

-- Thomas Bernhard

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“I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.”
“Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.”
“The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.”
“Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.”
“Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.”
“Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush”
“Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.”
“We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.”

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