Nobody really believes [the right to bear arms is] about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation. …I am not saying that people who love guns inordinately are unstable; I am saying that a gun is the most powerful device there is to accessorize the ego.
The New Yorker, 24 December 2012
Illustration from Little Folks Magazine, December 1918
Related: The Cultural Fight for Guns
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The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985)
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
[Before you deplore citing the "genius" of Adolph Hitler and Idi Amin, look the word up in a reliable dictionary. It is a morally neutral term.]
It took me a long time to discover that the key thing in acting is honesty. Once you know how to fake that, you’ve got it made.
“Actor in Peyton Place,” quoted in Edmund Snow Carpenter’s They Became What They Beheld (1970)
Illustration by Pierre et Gilles: Thierry Mugler as Devil (1992)
Related: Lie to Me
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Ineptitude consists in wanting to reach conclusions…What mind worthy of the name, beginning with Homer, ever reached a conclusion?
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Illustration by Saul Steinberg (1966)
