"When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes."

Satire, Poverty, Values, Irony, Wealth

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"When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes."

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"Genuinity is mother of stupidity."

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"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

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"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Does your guilty past catch up so fast with your age? You've been robbing hex nuts, cap nuts, lock nuts and wing nuts. No wonder you have turned into a greedy nut."

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"Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Man

"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."

Life

"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."

Life

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Chance

"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

Criticism

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Action

"Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him."

Love

"I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit."

Affection

"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf."

Humor

"No stone was laid upon another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been added to another in a mad scramble to fill the belly, and the streets smell of empty bellies and full bellies and bellies half full. The streets smell of a hunger which has nothing to do with love; they smell of the belly which is insatiable and of the creations of the empty belly which are null and void."

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