"[picket sign] COGITO ERGO NOTHING!....[casual passerby:] "Cogito ergo your ass"...."

-- Donald Barthelme

#Ass Quotes #Casual Quotes #Passerby Quotes

“The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.”
“I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.”
“Where is it now, the glory and the dream?”
“I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.”

Source : Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.497, University of Chicago Press
“Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.”
“So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.”
“She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.”
“We are the modern day gladiators.”

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