"If any running event, you are absolutely alone. Nobody can help you."

-- John Landy

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“I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.”
“It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.”
“While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.”
“Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.”

Source : Charlas de Cafe
“Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.”
“I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.”
“What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.”
“Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.”

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