The Recruiting Officer (1706), Act iv. Sc. 1.
“[T]hose who do not love [life] are unworthy of it.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10 <br class="br">Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html (I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.) <br class="br">Referenced
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, Portrait of the Ally as an Intermediary (March 2018)
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_11-02-1974_-_NME.
“Loopier than a snake in a garden hose.”
Malcolm Azania book The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 24 “A Glimpse into Wet, Dark Jewels” (p. 147)
“The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down”
J. G. Ballard book Super-Cannes
"Dr. Wilder Penrose"
Super-Cannes (2000)
Context: The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Interlude “Death Masks” section 8 (p. 639)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
April Winchell (1960) American voice actor and writer
KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, March 25, 2001, 11:00 p.m. hour.
