“Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
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“Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.”
A letter to his wife Polly (October 1938) http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/excalibur.htm, quoted in Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 81 http://www.discord.org/~lippard/bfm/bfm05.htm#81.
Context: Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods. I turned the thing up so it's up to me to survive in a big way... Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
“Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.”
"The State of the Theatre" an interview by Henry Brandon in Harpers 221 (November 1960)
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“Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.”
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 7