Papa Mousekewitz Quotes & Sayings

woe of unnumbered generations — Jack London

The age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning ... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself. — Jean Baudrillard

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me. — Frederic Chopin

. . . doesn't it seem odd that Gowing's always coming and Cummings' always going? — George Grossmith

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood. — Myrtle Reed

It's always the most patriotic asshole in the room that has absolutely no concept of what patriotism actually means. — Sam L. Amirante

Getting sober never felt like I had pulled myself up by my own spiritual bootstraps. It felt instead like I was on one path toward destruction and God pulled me off of it by the scruff of my collar, me hopelessly kicking and flailing and saying, 'Screw you. I'll take the destruction please.' God looked at tiny, little red-faced me and said, 'that's adorable,' and then plunked me down on an entirely different path. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

The expression on her face, which was swept by the excitement of what she saw ... was as luminous and tremulous under it as water in sunlight when it is ruffled by a gust of wind. — Elizabeth Von Arnim