"Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road."

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Source : Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

Tibor Fischer

#Men Quotes #Order Quotes #Doors Quotes

“My hero is Roger Federer.”
“Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?”
“The wretched have no friends.”
“He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.”
“Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever was not significant until the development of a male-dominated medical establishment made possible the situation in which a professional might move from touching a corpse (for the purposes of study) to putting his unwashed hands up against, or into, a woman in labor.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Christians worship a dead Jew on a stick”
“As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.”
“I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.”

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