"The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly."

-- Thomas Sowell

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“A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.”
“Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.”
“If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.”
“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”
“Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.”
“Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.”
“The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...”

Source : Donald Barthelme (1992). “The teachings of Don B.: satires, parodies, fables, illustrated stories, and plays of Donald Barthelme”

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