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“No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.”

Knows Men Needs Giving May Action Pain Lying Sleep Space Known Know How Changed Greatness Return Simplicity Driven Particles Exalted Blackness Fiery Outer Space Without Pain

Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.”

Knows Friendship Kindness Know How Friends Return

Book:The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose

Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose

“The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.”

“When most people return from Europe, they tell tales of all the sites they saw, the shopping, the entertainment, etc. Jews, on the other hand, return and say I had this slice of cake in Austria, let me tell you, I don't know how they make it! It was great!”

People Knows Hands Know How Saws Return Europe Let Me Jew Entertainment Tales Etc Cake Shopping Site Austria

Author:Jackie Mason

“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.”

“Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.”