How many carrots are necessary for a vegetable mix to include carrots in its bagged content? Well apparently just one. (You’ll be hearing from me).
The hardest part about growing up was trying to figure out what was growing up and what wasn’t, and you were never sure at any point whether or not you got it right.
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| — | Gahan Wilson, Nuts |
“Although not a pessimist or a misanthrope, there are days when contact with any human being makes me physically ill. I am oppressed at such times and in such periods by what was known among the Romantics as world-weariness. I feel a total stranger to life.
Solitude is the only relief. The dream-world is then the great reality; the real world an illusion. I go to my library and live with the great abstract thinkers—Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Walter Pater.”
— Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin: Interviews
Vincent van Gogh, Terrace of a Café at Night, 1888, oil on canvas (via Kröller-Müller Museum)
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.
