"Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars."

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Source : Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)

Tama Janowitz

#Fall Quotes #Car Quotes #Long Quotes

“The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility”
“I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.”

Source : John Burroughs (1924). “Accepting the universe”
“I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.”
“A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.”

Source : "The age of indifference" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.
“There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient (...), and a random one (...). In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.”
“His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.”
“I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.”

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