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"The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness."
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
"If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything and it looks like what it's supposed to be. It's a lot of work, but if you really have it in you, it's not like work. It becomes fun."
"Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball."
"A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation."
"But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun."
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
"It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow."
"You have to able to make fun of yourself. Don't take things too seriously and when people make fun of you, laugh at it."
"Life is so great. Life is so fun. Life is so great in my head because I see the love. I see what life could be. As long as I can fulfill it and fulfill my days, it will be fruitful and come about."
"We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God."
"If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you."
"You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months."
"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance."
"My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop."
"It is actually quite exciting when you're flying headfirst into a barrier — the initial part, the initial part is actually quite fun, especially when you hit the gravel trap and you get some air, and then you see it coming and you think 'erk — it's gonna hurt!'"
"Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game."
"The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?"
"If you love the game and you love playing, just have fun and enjoy it. Work hard and don't get bogged down by it."
"The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always."
