"You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul."

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Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.86, Penguin

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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“During the 1996 Forum election my election agent, John Dobson, told me that at some stage down the line we were going to have to talk to the IRA and that I was the man to do it. And my reaction was not printable!”

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“I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.”
“I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.20, New York Review of Books
“I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity.”

Source : Interview with Burgin Streetman, www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com. July 1, 2013.
“The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.”

Source : Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 24, 2010.
“The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.”
“Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it”
“Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.”

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