Junkyard Quotes 1-5, Week 12

“God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“I don’t have to draw a new line, because Hamlet’s situation is the same as Cinderella’s, except that the sexes are reversed.”
“I’ll hire actors to act out the way the ghost said my father was murdered by my uncle, and I’ll put on this show and see what my uncle makes of it.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
"If limos, chartered aircraft and sex clubs are where they think their donors' money should be spent, who are we to judge?”
-The Washington Post
“4 people, 1 rat and 1 dog. Samuel L. Jackson did not say “motherfucker” even once.”
(refering to the film 187)
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“Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan.
Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.
There’s a happy ending: In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an invitation to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will last forever.”
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