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We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth. ↗

— John Hodgman

#areas-of-my-expertise #author #daily-show #funny #john-hodgman

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#cannot #cheat #companionship #dissipate #force

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#ecstasy #even #feet #freely #itself

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#bureaucracy #evaporates #every #leaves #new

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#anyone #beauty #grows #keeps #never

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#die #first #sign #understanding #wish

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#back #certain #certain point #longer #must

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#among #anyone #cannot #come #despair

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#avoid #back #could #free #hold

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#big #future #huge #lies #medium-sized