"Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous."

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Thomas Ligotti

#Peculiar Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes

“One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.”
“Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.”
“I love to show off my ability in a nice way.”
“Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.”
“Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.”
“There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists take great pains to make sure that ideology and personal bias and wishful thinking do not contaminate the collection and analysis and evidence.”
“'m a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.”
“We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.”

Source : R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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