"I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot."

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Source : Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War”

Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek

#Army Quotes #Special Quotes #Idiot Quotes

“The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.
“The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1998). “Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands”, p.162, Northwestern University Press
“He practiced against Kobe all of last year, so obviously it was sweet revenge for him. We deserved that. We didn't know who he was, we gave him up to Charlotte, we had no idea how good a player he was.”
“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”
“We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.”
“Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.”
“Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.”
“Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.”

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