Michael Ventura Quotes

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If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

Michael Ventura

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

Michael Ventura

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind—is to be crazy, not healthy.

Michael Ventura

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Michael Ventura

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone.
If they mean it, they need it.

Michael Ventura

When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.

Michael Ventura

Michael Ventura

Michael Ventura

Born: October 31, 1945 (age 80)

Bio: Michael Ventura is an American novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and cultural critic.

Known for:

Letters at 3am (1993)
The Death of Frank Sinatra: A Novel (1996)
The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel (1994)
If I was a Highway: Essays (2011)

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