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Brother Theodore
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"You are born, you live your life in torment and humiliation and then you die...You need to watch television to distract yourself from your miserable destiny."
-- Brother Theodore on Late Nite with David Letterman, urging television boycotters in Farmington, CT to keep watching."The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people."
"If I die, best wishes for the rest of your life. If I don't -- I'll phone you." --Brother Theodore, before undergoing a nasal operation in 1990 to correct the breathing problems he suffered ever since he had his nose broken by the Nazis at Dachau.
"We think we act, but we are always acted upon.
We think we think, but our thoughts are always imposed on us.""Only what we have lost forever do we ever truly possess.
Only where there are graves are there ever resurrections.
Only when we have drunk from darkness shall we truly see.""Madness is a very healthy sickness. If it were not for my madness, I would have gone insane long ago."
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Poor Brother Theodore. I had wanted to see one of his shows for years, but I never got around to it. As the maudlin old poem goes: "Around the corner, a vanished friend". Since I always passed the Greenwich Village theater where he held forth every week but never went in, it would probably have satisfied his sense of irony. I still hope to see him one day, which would satisfy MY sense of irony!Chris Gross
(P.S.: My best wishes to Theodore's friends and family)
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