Source: Requiem for a Dream
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 254
As It Is: Simply To See (p.199)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)
Gertrude Elion https://www.famousscientists.org/gertrude-b-elion/
“I was mad and the idea of controlling my life to get what I wanted was like candy to me.”
The Confession of My Crimes
Context: I was mad at God, I didn’t LIKE God because of how I perceived Him, and the stuff I read on Satanism said two things that appealed to me. #1 — it offered freedom, and #2 — it promised power to control my life, and others. I’d been carted all around the state and Colorado all my life, slapped, smacked, hit, and had whatever I wanted ignored. I was mad and the idea of controlling my life to get what I wanted was like candy to me. Plus I looked at the way everyone around me lived and the stuff I read in the Satanic Bible in principle was lived out in lifestyle by Mom and Dad and everyone else I knew. No one was a real Christian. We didn’t go to church. We didn’t talk about God. … What was the point of pretending to serve God when we lived like Satanists? Satanism taught me that I should make my own rules to live by in life, and that’s just what everyone I’d grown up around did, so I got very involved in Satanism. I truly thought it was an honest way to live, and the rituals of it would enable me to control my life. Even then I didn’t want to kill anyone. That desire didn’t start until later.
Interview with Ralph Ginzburg in Nazi Rockwell! A Portrait in Sound
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