"Friendships are an unforseeable burden."

-- Steve Toltz

“Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?”
“I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.”
“Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.”
“Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.”

Source : "Permissive parents: Curb your brats". edition.cnn.com. July 5, 2011.
“If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.”

Source : "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
“The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.”

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