"You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?"

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Source : Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.20, Macmillan

Sam Lipsyte

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Bullshit Quotes

“But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).”
“I know how deeply slothful I am.”
“I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'”
“It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.”
“I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.”
“Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.”
“Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.”
“No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.”

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