"The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism."

Society, Self, Identity, Capitalism

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"The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism."

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"Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sht and fck". ['Tolerance zero']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Society, Appearance, Jealousy, Identity

"There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Society, Conformity, Living, Approval

"I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Chomie' is South African homosexual men's unofficial name."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Society, Social, Identity, Culture, Truth

"It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Society, Truth, Politics, Deception, Ethics

"Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Society, Knowledge, Humor, Ignorance, Perception

"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Society, Control, Earth, Land

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"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."

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"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."

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"No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories."

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"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."

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"It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard time attending to anything except that pain, a clinically depressed person cannot even perceive any other person or thing as independent of the universal pain that is digesting her cell by cell."

Depression

"You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain."

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"Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move."

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"Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ['Tolerance zero']"

"Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible."

"I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills."

"Chomie' is South African homosexual men's unofficial name."

"It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour."

"Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out."

"Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about."

"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

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"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

"Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out."

"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."

"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."

"I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as-what I knew was that I worried a lot."

"No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories."

"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."

"It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard time attending to anything except that pain, a clinically depressed person cannot even perceive any other person or thing as independent of the universal pain that is digesting her cell by cell."

"You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain."

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