
“Let me tell you something; I do hate myself, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish.”
When accused of being a self-loathing Jew; Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 2, Episode 3, "Trick or Treat"
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Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
“Let me tell you something; I do hate myself, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish.”
When accused of being a self-loathing Jew; Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 2, Episode 3, "Trick or Treat"
“Don’t uncover, because there might be nothing. And nothing can’t be covered again.”
No descubras, que puede no haber nada. Y nada no se vuelve a cubrir.
Voces (1943)
2010s, Why Penn Jillette is Terrified of a President Trump (2016)
Context: Someone who is paying attention can do the same thing that Trump is doing with hate, and do it with love, and become president … That’s kind of beautiful. There’s nothing more optimistic than that. … Donald Trump does, when it comes right down to it, fuck up everything … He fucks up his casinos. He fucks up his buildings.... Maybe he’ll fuck up his campaign before he fucks up the country.
“Even sight heightened to become all-seeing
will do you no good without a sense of taking part.”
"Conversation with a Stone".
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
Context: No other sense can make up for your missing sense of taking part.
Even sight heightened to become all-seeing
will do you no good without a sense of taking part.
You shall not enter, you have only a sense of what the sense should be,
only its seed, imagination.
Holi Festival, Miami, Florida, on Sunday, April 1978, printed in Divine Times April/May 1978 Volume 7, Number 3
1970s
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”