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  • When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

  • Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

    Art   Ideas   Looks  
  • One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

    Men   Satire   One Man  
  • I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

    "Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut 'Steve,' Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.
  • If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!

  • The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

    Fashion   Strong   May  
    "Jil Sander: 'If I had the power I would ban leggings'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2011.
  • [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

  • What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.

    Pain   Drinking   Wine  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1457, Google Publishing
  • The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

    Perfect   Tasks   Beats  
  • I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

    Soul   Mind   Purpose  
    Song: Asking Too Much, Album: Not a Pretty Girl
  • It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

    Slides   Easy   Existence  
  • I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

    Stupid   Perfect   Long  
    Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.4, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

    Made   Wanted   Has Beens  
    Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.107, Franz Kafka
  • Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

    Exercise   Golf   People  
  • This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

    Views   Class   White  
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