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it's a vain pursuit but it helps me to sleep
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- University of Waterloo - Waterloo, ON, Canada (1989 - 1996)
I have a web site.
But you're probably better off reading these quotes:
If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
- Stanley Kubrick
Lary was busy, and therefore happy.
- Redmond O'Hanlon
The more I practice, the luckier I get.
- Gary Player
Shut up he explained.
- Ring Lardner
We live, as we dream - alone.
- Joseph Conrad
In prison everything is laid out for you; you don’t have to decide on anything. They tell you when to get up, what to wear, everything is decided for you by others. If you live in this for years and are then suddenly released, freedom becomes a burden.
- Vaclav Havel
Travel is lethal to prejudice, bigotry and small-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
Travel is the most private of pleasures.
- Vita Sackville-West
Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.
- Italo Calvino
This was a lot easier when I didn't know what I was doing.
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matociquala
Was I bored? No, I wasn't fuckin' bored. I'm never bored. That's the trouble with everybody - you're all so bored. You've had nature explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the living body explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the universe explained to you and you're bored with it, so now you want cheap thrills and, like, plenty of them, and it doesn't matter how tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it's new, as long as it's new, as long as it flashes and fuckin' bleeps in forty fuckin' different colors. So whatever else you can say about me, I'm not fuckin' bored.
- Mike Leigh (and David Thewlis)
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belong to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and the dancing sheep, and cries, "Of course I am happy here! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!"
- Peter Matthiessen
But you're probably better off reading these quotes:
If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
- Stanley Kubrick
Lary was busy, and therefore happy.
- Redmond O'Hanlon
The more I practice, the luckier I get.
- Gary Player
Shut up he explained.
- Ring Lardner
We live, as we dream - alone.
- Joseph Conrad
In prison everything is laid out for you; you don’t have to decide on anything. They tell you when to get up, what to wear, everything is decided for you by others. If you live in this for years and are then suddenly released, freedom becomes a burden.
- Vaclav Havel
Travel is lethal to prejudice, bigotry and small-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
Travel is the most private of pleasures.
- Vita Sackville-West
Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.
- Italo Calvino
This was a lot easier when I didn't know what I was doing.
-
matociqualaWas I bored? No, I wasn't fuckin' bored. I'm never bored. That's the trouble with everybody - you're all so bored. You've had nature explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the living body explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the universe explained to you and you're bored with it, so now you want cheap thrills and, like, plenty of them, and it doesn't matter how tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it's new, as long as it's new, as long as it flashes and fuckin' bleeps in forty fuckin' different colors. So whatever else you can say about me, I'm not fuckin' bored.
- Mike Leigh (and David Thewlis)
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belong to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and the dancing sheep, and cries, "Of course I am happy here! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!"
- Peter Matthiessen
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