Jandir Three Quotes & Sayings

Dead infants don't get urns unless you pay for them - and then they stuff crap in besides just ashes to cover the smallness. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition. — Georgia Harkness

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me. — Studs Terkel

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive. — Joanna Lumley

love: a chemical history.
...The second stage, attraction, is governed by dopamine and serotonin. When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy in each other's presence, that's dopamine, the pleasure hormone, doing its work.
Taking cocaine fosters the same level of euphoria. In fact, scientists who study both the brains of new lovers and cocaine addicts are hard-pressed to tell the difference. — Nicola Yoon

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success. — Ezra Taft Benson

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice. — Jonathan Lethem

Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors). — Robert Anton Wilson

on the internet, nobody know if you are a dog... — The New Yorker

Love is the strength of the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke. — Saul Bellow

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260 — Donna Tartt