"Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus Christ for Arthur Miller."

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Source : Nicholas Samstag (1962). “The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better”, Astor-Honor Incorporated

Nicholas Samstag

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“All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.”
“The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.”
“The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.”
“People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.”
“When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.”
“Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.”
“You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else.”
“We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?”

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