Arthur Nersesian quotes
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“If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.”
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“Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.”
-- Arthur NersesianSource : Arthur Nersesian (2010). “Mesopotamia”, p.11, Akashic Books
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“As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.”
-- Arthur NersesianSource : Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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“I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ***** as he completely turned his back on me.”
-- Arthur NersesianSource : Arthur Nersesian (2010). “Dogrun”, p.113, Simon and Schuster
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“Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?”
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“When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.”
-- Arthur NersesianSource : Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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“Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.”
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“The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.”
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“Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.”
-- Arthur NersesianSource : Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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“Every generation tailors history to its taste.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon
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“I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.”
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“Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.”
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Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.
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“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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