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Samizdata quote of the day The trouble is that once you haven’t won, the sense that you are gatecrashing somebody else’s party is overwhelming, and it hits you hard that the ‘somebody else’ is much more glamorous than you.
– Dan Mazer, the writer of Borat on being nominated for an Oscar. More or less how I feel about life in general, really.
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That’s sad Guy.
A party is a party!
Besides how does Mazer think Peter O’Toole feels?
Probably
“Bugger the little gold androgynous chap,
where’s the booze and the women!”
Take it from someone who really has lost the “game” of life Guy – you have not lost, you have won.
Other people may have won on a larger scale, but that does not alter the fact that you are a winner not loser.
Paul, why do you feel you have “Lost”
Yet Guy has “won” ?
Stop putting yourself down.
We can ALL win given a fair wind
Not a fairtrade one mind!
Whole different rigged ball-game!
Perhaps “we can all win” Rab. So perhaps I could have won (I might argue with that – but I will not do so here).
However, the fact remains that I did not win. It may be irritating (it is irritating), but there is such a thing as objective reality.