Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
-- Stanislaw Lec
-- Stanislaw Lec
Related:
- You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Stanislaw... - I give you bitter pills in sugar coating.
The pills are harmless:
the poison is in the sugar. -- Stanislaw... - You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how
to cope with heat waves.
Stanislaw J.... - Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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Stanislaw... - Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
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Stanislaw J.... - The first condition of immortality is death.
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Stanislaw J.... - Please saw my legs off.
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Things you never hear people... - At the beginning there was the Word - at the end just the Cliche.
Stanislaw J.... - Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.
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Stanislaw J....
From the same category:
- FIGHTING WORDS
Say my love is easy had,
Say I'm bitten raw with pride,
Say I am too often sad -- Still behold me at your... - ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of
filial ingratitude -
a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to... - The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is
waiting.
Fran Lebowitz, "Social... - Lend money to a bad debtor and he will
hate you... - If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted,
we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything...
