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• To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lonely, Real, Cities

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• If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Hollywood, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they should also be conscious of the risk of inventing pointless 'technical' machinery which do not offer real explanations, but often just re-state the known facts in a more complex way.

  Tim Crane

  Real, Thinking, Risk

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• You have to listen to Trump in a nonpolitical way. When Trump starts talking on the campaign trail, "NATO's pointless, it's worthless. We're paying the lion's share and these people aren't contributing, and that's gonna end. This make America great, put America first." People think, "Wow! We're gonna get out of NATO, finally. He's gonna close up NATO!" No. If you listen very carefully, he was complaining that the other members were not doing their part.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Complaining

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Stupid, Book, Mean

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• It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else.

  Mathieu Demy

  Able, Digital, Sooner Or Later

  Source: collider.com

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• As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

  Andy Kaufman

  Country, Animal, Superstitions

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• Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Silly, Winning, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The selfish and usually pointless approach is to try to get both done simultaneously - accomplish your work at hand while begging forgiveness of those close to you while you're basically working in front of them during what could've been specifically 'quality time.'

  Bob Saget

  Selfish, Hands, Trying

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did for a living. I said, "I write," and it seemed totally ridiculous in the face of what had just happened. I mean, I couldn't think of anything more pointless than telling stories. He asked, "What do you write?" I said, "I write children books."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Children, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.

  Faye J Crosby

  Women, Real, May

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life.

  Frederick Buechner

  Giving Up, Self, Way

  "Frederick Buechner Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2006.

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• By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Freedom, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.

  Boy George

  Exercise, Records, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Symphony, Clear

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• The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down.

  Michel Gondry

  Ideas, America, Competition

  Source: collider.com

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• Losing composure is pointless.

  Michael Schumacher

  Losing, Composure

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• A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Memories, Kids

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• War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Nazism, Slavery

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• Life is pointless...and that is God's greatest gift.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life Is, Greatest Gifts

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• It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Years, Curiosity

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.esquire.com. 1961.

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• Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.

  The Edge

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

  Steven Weinberg

  Understanding, Plausible, Seems

  Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

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• Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Community, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.138, AK Press

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• If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Repeats, Fascinating, Ifs

  "Andy Goldsworthy goes into the wild". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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