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Usefulness Quotes (page 198)

I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how I say it, no matter its tone, its frequency range, its decibel level or the way in which I put the words together, no matter my intentions and no matter the truth. What I'll read one day will be a chastised, manipulated abortion of your... Vincent Gallo
The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product for his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational Ayn Rand
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. Leonardo da Vinci
I used to love you. I still do. So Selfish. I love the old you. The you that didnt shoot drugs... The you that didnt get beat on by men. You laugh in my face and call me a fool. But its true. I still love you. Sometimes, I can see the old you. When your eyes flash. When you almost look alive Henry Rollins
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. Don DeLillo
Aleister Crowley quote: "I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make..."
I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. Aleister Crowley
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book. Erica Jong
[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. Harry S. Truman
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. Charles Dickens
Haruki Murakami quote: "When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting..."
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want. Haruki Murakami
Gilles Deleuze quote: "A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of..."
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. Gilles Deleuze
Bruce Lee quote: "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is..."
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. Bruce Lee
Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my present self to myself as I used to be! Gutman: That's the furthest departure a man could make! Tennessee Williams
You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted? Mitch Albom
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way. Leo Tolstoy

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