"What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned."

-- Osamu Dazai

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“The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.”
“I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us.”
“Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.”

Source : William Wells Brown (1853). “Clotel; or, The president's daughter”, p.179
“Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.”
“My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.”
“I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.”
“Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that sheâ€™s â€˜damaged goodsâ€™, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom â€˜do you still love me?â€™ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.”
“Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.”

Source : Interview with ESPN, www.espn.com.

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