Chinaski 1970 Quotes & Sayings

The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered. — Umberto Eco

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't. — Vladimir Nabokov

Technology is the new religion of urban China, and no longer just in the coastal cities. Having wasted decades, centuries almost, overcoming traditional objections to progress, and then wasted thirty years convulsing to a Maoist revolutionary tune, the Chinese have finally gotten themselves into a position where they can develop technology and begin to take on the world. Everywhere you see signs that say REVIVE THE NATION THROUGH SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. — Rob Gifford

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me. — Jason Reitman

You have a girlfriend?" said Brian. "You never told us."
"I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren."
"Why not?" said Brian. "Mom and Dad would be thrilled. Unless she's some disgusting skank leading you down a sick and twisted path. — Caroline B. Cooney

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher. — Ludwig Von Mises

The journey to the grave is already begun, the journey to corruption is, always, already, half over. — James Baldwin

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community. — Max Carver

Out the window in the distance, contradicting the prairie, a mirage of downtown Chicago ascended to a kind of lurid acropolis, its light as if from nightly immolation warped to the red end of the spectrum, smoldering as if always just about to explode into open flames. — Thomas Pynchon

We have to change our thoughts before things can change. — Debasish Mridha

A bitch is more selective about her availability. She's available
sometimes; other times she's not. But she's nice. — Sherry Argov