"America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out."

-- Janet Reno

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“Everything is amazing and nobody is happy”

Source : "Funny As Fuck: Interviewing Louis CK in a Snow Castle". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. April 4, 2013.
“Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.”
“The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.”
“It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.”
“As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.”
“Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.”
“Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.”
“Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.”

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