"I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people."

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Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

Peter Cameron

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“The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.”
“The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about the relevance of empirical work to philosophy, a good deal of their work is devoted to understanding features of our folk concepts, and in this respect, at least, I see them as making the same mistake as those armchair philosophers who are interested in conceptual analysis.”
“Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.”
“By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.”

Source : Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation
“If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.”
“I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.”
“Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.”
“Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.”

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