"Life is a sexually transmitted disease that no one survives." - Jason Carswell
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R. D. Laing: "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
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Unsourced since 2009: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Ronald_David_Laing
It may be a misattributed quote.
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Source for the quotation:
Burston D. 'The Wing of Madness: the Life and Work of R D Laing.' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Also:
1656: Life is an Incurable Disease. —Abraham Cowley
1943: Some people think of life as a fatal disease. —Francis T. Cunningham
1968: Life is a hereditary disease. —Anonymous Graffito
1971: Life is a terminal disease. —Anonymous Graffito
1980: Life is a sexually transmitted disease. —Anonymous Graffito
1981: Life is just another sexually transmitted social disease. —Margaret Atwood
1982: Life is a sexually transmitted disease. — attributed to Posy Simmonds
1982: Life is a sexually transmitted disease. —Guy Bellamy
1984: Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. —Marilyn Duckworth
1985: Life is a sexually transmitted disease & there’s a 100% mortality rate. —R. D. Laing
1997: Paula Gunn Allen published "Life Is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems, 1962-1995."
2004: Lis Harvey released the song "Life Is Fatal."
2009: Zeke Hoskin released the song "Life Is Lethal."
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What?! 1980? Naw, I said it first on the internet in the 90s. Everyone after is stealing my intellectual property and owe's me ten bucks, because every ten bucks is a drink at the bars now.
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