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“Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.”

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Sid Waddell was a renowned sports commentator known for his unique style of commentary and deep understanding of sports events. Born on August 10, 1940, he passed away on August 11, 2012. more

“As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.”

People Feels Should Mind Humans Race Alive Worst Activity Human Race Conspiracy Incentives Praiseworthy Procreation Conspirators

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada”

Looks Body Suffering Poor Ready Your Body Collapse Toys Puppets Diseased Dhammapada

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over it? Our self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move, a feat so luminous it would bedim the sun. What do we have to lose? No evil would attend our departure from this world, and the many evils we have known would go extinct along with us. So why put off what would be the most laudable masterstroke of our existence, and the only one?”

Ifs World Way Stills Self Would Be Moving Evil Loses Existence Consciousness Known Sun This World Planets Over It Magnificent Departure Luminous Feats Blunders Removal

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.”

“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”

People Consciousness

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.”

People Dies Fate

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.”

People Knows Knowing Worst Mass Puppets Descent Microorganisms

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.”

People Artist My Own Careers Terrible Assuming

Author:Tori Amos

“For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better. For pessimists, there is no amount of happiness—should such a thing as happiness even obtain for human beings except as a misconception—that can compensate us for life’s hurt.”

Needs Should Humans Matter Hurt Human Beings Amount Human Life Get Better Justification Optimist Pessimist Misconception Things Will Get Better

Author:Thomas Ligotti

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