Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps. . … - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps. . . they're either one or the other!. . . and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder!. . . they stand condemned!. . . the writer who doesn't pimp along, peacefully plagiarizing, who doesn't pump out the pop stuff, he's had it!. . . everybody hates him!

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