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  It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

  Michio Kaku

  Nice, Mean, Clean Desk

  "Desktop Diaries: Michio Kaku". "Science Friday", www.npr.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sports, Real, Thinking

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• I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

  Alan Moore

  Couple, Majority, Adaptation

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• It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

  Paul Simon

  Done, Stuff, Importance

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• My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Play, Preparation

  "Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue'". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2010.

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• ..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.

  Neal Stephenson

  Stupid, Cutting, Order

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• It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

  Yann Martel

  Night, Champion, Made

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.

  Dorothy Allison

  Eye, Blessing, Long

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.149, Penguin

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• Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Flower, Ideas

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dream, Distance, Stupid

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.121, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Eye, Light

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• Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Understanding, Doe

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• The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Philosophy, Space, Three

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.2, Dial Press

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• Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

  Megan Hart

  Giving Up, Tasks, Not Giving Up

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• But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Nice, Stupid, Trying

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• As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Friendship, Believe, Done

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• I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations...Hope was what you had when you had nothing else. Hope was the perfect shiny top on the Christmas tree, the glowing halo of every wish, the endless beacon of a lighthouse bringing tormented ships home at last.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Home, Glowing

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Journey, Intention, Whole

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, p.167, Candlewick Press

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• It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Men, Order

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• Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

  Haruki Murakami

  Perfect, World, Pointless Things

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.theguardian.com. April 2001.

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• Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week's work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Days Like This, Envy, Mind

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• How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Loss, Losing, Foolish

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

  Stephen King

  Moving

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

  Gerhard Richter

  Painting, Language, Difficult

  "Gerhard Richter - Painting". Documentary, 2011.

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• To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Mistake, Exercise, Natural

  Susanna Tamaro (2010). “Follow Your Heart”, p.141, Random House

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