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Overheard: "I don't see movies because they are trash, and I don't read books because if they are any good they will be made into movies."

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Once upon a time I knew an Armenian so rude in argument and so eager to go down into the gutter that very few wanted to follow him there, so that after a while he thought of himself as a 20th-century reincarnation of the famous medieval Armenian philosopher David Anhaght ("Invincible"), so called because he is said to have been invincible in argument.

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When Zarian said, "Armenians survive by cannibalizing one another," he clearly implied the solution, namely, vegetarianism (metaphorically speaking, of course). #armenians

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Monday, August 15, 2016
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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If I understand my fellow Armenians
it’s because of Thomas Hobbes’s dictum:
“The wicked man is but the child grown strong.”
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Clinton versus Trump:
Not black and white but shades of gray.
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Every military defeat,
every natural and man made disaster
like earthquakes and epidemics
was followed by mass exodus.
One could even say
exodus to be our most popular foreign policy.
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My aim is to expose inconsistencies
and contradictions.
If your aim is to speak the truth,
I am bound to be the loser.
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FROM THE DIARY OF AN IDIOT
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For many years I suspected the world was
populated by semi-idiots, and then, early one
morning, to my shock and outrage, I woke up with
the certainty that I was the idiot.

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Every belief system is also a critique as well as a rejection of all other belief systems.

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Fascists make good speechifiers, but I see more eloquence in the braying of an ass. #armenians

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An idiot once said to me: "Books speak about the past. I am more interested in the future." He is thinking of his next screw, I thought.

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Where the art of advertisement is developed,
the brain will be underdeveloped.

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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
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WISDOM
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There is patriotic wisdom
and there is popular wisdom.
Our popular wisdom says:
“Mart bidi ch’ellank.”
Freely translated:
“We shall never acquire the status
of human beings.”
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I acquired literary ambitions
at a time when I knew nothing
about the history of our literature.
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The average Armenian thinks
he has no need to know anything
about Armenians because he is one.
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Subservience to Turks taught
us subservience to Russians
and ultimately subservience to our own
bosses, bishops and benefactors.
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I no longer reply to insults;
I simply unfriend the bugger.
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