What I do find hard to bear is money in its role as the coinage of virtue and that, I sometimes think, is its biggest role in our society. Many people have protested about advertising and media images that make people feel inadequate. The perfect Mum using the perfect washing powder or producing the perfect …
Once you have their money … never give it back. Never pay more for an acquisition than you have to. Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity. A man is only worth the sum of his possessions. Keep your ears open. Small print leads to large risk. Opportunity plus instinct equals profit. …
Remember. From the cat’s instinctive point of view, the animal world consists of: 1) things that eat it 2) things it can eat 3) things it can eat but will regret immediately; and 4) other cats. But we then expect it to be perfectly at ease when faced with: a) Meals On Treadwheels b) meals …
Life is too short to have sorrow You may be here today and gone tomorrow You might as well get what you want So go on and live, baby go on and live
Una selección de títulos curiosos por categorías. They didn’t mean it. Unintentional double-entendre titles. “Games You Can Play with Your Pussy” “Enid Blyton’s Gay Story Book” “Penetrating Wgner’s Ring” “The Big Problem of Small Organs” “Queer Doings in the Navy” We have a book on it. Atonishingly specialized subjects. “Why People move” “Shoe Bottom Costing” …
Relato Una mañana a mediodía, junto al parque Monceau, en la plataforma trasera de un autobús casi completo de la línea S (en la actualidad el 84), observé a un personaje con el cuello bastante largo que llevaba un sombrero de fieltro rodeado de un cordón trenzado en lugar de cinta. Este individuo interpeló, de …
There’s a period between four and six in the evening when the day seems to hang, motionles and idle in the air. The work day is gone, and your mind needs the kind of rest that reading won’t provide; the evening news hasn’t yet come on TV, it is too early to start thinking about …
Someday your face will freeze like that! What if everyone jumped off a cliff…Would you do it, too? You’re going to put your eye out with that thing! Don’t put that in your mouth…you don’t know where it’s been. Did you flush? I hope someday you have children just like you. If I have to …