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“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy” (variously attributed to W. C. Fields, Tom Waits, and most commonly Dorothy Parker) The preceding phrase was further developed by Dean Martin, who said, “I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy.”
(big thanks to wikipedia)

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Delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS), also known as delayed sleep-phase disorder (DSPD) or delayed sleep-phase type (DSPT), is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, a chronic disorder of the timing of sleep, peak period of alertness, core body temperature, hormonal and other daily rhythms relative to societal norms. People with DSPS tend to [...]

Someone has said that if all the stars were to cease shining tonight, and not shine again for a whole year, and then suddenly were to burst out again in all their glory, there’s not an eye that would not be lifted heavenward. Ah, that’s itl That touches the nerve of the matter. It is [...]

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression [...]

Familiar questions brought up in Zorba the Greek.
From Wikipedia: (themes in Zorba)
Zorba is described as “a living heart, a large voracious mouth, a great brute soul, not yet severed from mother earth.” The novel can be perceived as a vaccine against metaphysical thinking and it describes the contrast introduced by Friedrich Nietzsche between the Apollonian [...]

(Reprinted from TIME)
By M.J. Stephey
Jeff Gordinier is tired of being force-fed the Beatles, the Summer of Love, Facebook and Britney Spears. He says being heard over the media din about boomers and their offspring, Generation Y, or “millennials” as they’re now known, isn’t just a challenge, it’s annoying. Being overlooked and underappreciated? It’s never-ending for [...]