"I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink..."

-- William S. Burroughs

#Hate Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Octopus Quotes

“In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“Every sin is the result of collaboration.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1): 34 of the Greatest Stories Ever Written”, p.841, Wildside Press LLC
“I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.”
“Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity.”
“The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.”
“It was the first time I used that bat. A Yankee fan in Chicago gave it to me the last time we were there and said it would bring me luck. There's no brand name on it or anything. Maybe the guy made it himself. It had been in the bat rack, and I picked it up by mistake because it looked like the bat I had been using the last few days.”
“Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race...”
“But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.”

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