
“To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.”
Diary entry for June 7, 1985, p. 143.
Writing Home (1994)
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 92
“To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.”
Diary entry for June 7, 1985, p. 143.
Writing Home (1994)
“God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.”
"God"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
“Power as the pursuit of more power inevitably founders in the void that lies beyond itself.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Eight, Nietzsche, p. 181
United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4 (15 February 1954)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 494.
“Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 63
“I still think its probably the most evil of all pursuits.”
On war.
Don Swaim interview (1975)
Context: I still think its probably the most evil of all pursuits.... the thing is when you're getting shot at you don't think so much about who's right and who's wrong or who's good and who's and bad... one of the first things they told you was "Forget about patriotism. That's not how you win a war. You win a war by being a vicious, merciless, mean, son-of-a-bitch." And, they try to infuse that in everybody, and I think rightly so.
Elements of Refusal (1988)
“Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.”
Letter to Benjamin Bailey (March 13, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)