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Ernest Hemingway1 quote

It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. — Ernest Hemingway · 1933

Hillary Rodham Clinton1 quote

We lack, at some core level, meaning in our individual lives and meaning collectively-that sense that our lives are part of some greater effort, that we are connected to one another... We need a new politics of meaning. We need a new ethos of individual responsibility and caring. We need a new definition of civil society which answers the unanswerable questions posed by both the market forces and the governmental ones, as to how we can have a society that fills us up again and makes us feel that we are part of something bigger than ourselves. — Hillary Rodham Clinton · 1993

Joan Didion1 quote

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. — Joan Didion · 1979

Lawrence Walsh1 quote

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. — Lawrence Walsh · 1974

Margaret Atwood1 quote

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood · 1985

Mitch Hedberg1 quote

I've seen a human pyramid before. It was very unnecessary. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999

Phil1 quote

What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing that you did mattered? — Phil · 1993

Troy Dyer1 quote

There's no point to any of this. It's all just a...a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know...a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter becomes a cackle. And I sit back, and I...I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt. — Troy Dyer · 1994

Wizard1 quote

Look at it this way, you know. A man takes a job, you know? And that job—I mean, like that—that becomes what he is. You know, like—you do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for seventeen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become—you get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. You know, people are born. I envy you. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know. — Wizard · 1976