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“Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.”

Two Choices Five Modern Ten Treats Mark Presses Vegetables Pants Fifteen Psychiatry Analysts

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?”

Thinking Names Modern Right Now Ten Hot Damn Things To Do Smoking Coincidence Looking Good One Woman Damn Things Modern Music

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!”

Years Made Country Today Cities Modern Ten Years Ago Flats Mud Swamps Never Fear Metropolis

Author:Mr. Lee

“Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.”

Men Firsts Modern Thousand Ten Average Quitting Electric Lamps Average Man

Author:Pete Seeger

“Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.”

Years Ideas Economic Modern Century Civilization Ten Population Faster Life Changing Modern Life Interdependence Unified

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works