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Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.
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Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.
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To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.
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Caring. Not the most exciting of words, is it? Almost as humble as a tool. But that is the Alchemist's Stone of human endeavour.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Athol Fugard
Born:
June 11, 1932
(age 92)
Bio:
Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English.
Known for:
Blood Knot (1964)
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (1972)
The Road to Mecca (1985)
The Island
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