"I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors."

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Source : "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.

Jay Gould

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“No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.”
“We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.”
“Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.”
“Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness”

Source : Mark Mirabello (2005). “The Cannibal Within”, p.59, Mandrake
“Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.”
“There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.”
“From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?Â Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically un-contained?”

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