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A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing. Oscar Wilde
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. Baruch Spinoza
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith
absurd early four morning
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes. Joss Whedon
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. Nicolas Chamfort
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I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place. Kurt Braunohler
absurd adds certainty lessens shame
Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. Laurence Sterne
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Neither Beckett, nor Ionesco, not even Arrabal: the biggest responsible for the absurd in entertainment is the guy who calculates the tickets' prices. Dirceu Ferreira
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. T. J. Miller
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People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.
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Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule. Richard Curtis
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These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.
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The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her, Daniel Handler
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There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap. Michael Lewis
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
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And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare
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And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they're studying. Reese Witherspoon
books faithful inspired original screenplay spirit
First of all, we wanted to be faithful to the two books that inspired Jose Rivera's screenplay and to the spirit of the original journey. Walter Salles
ignorance vanity causes
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Blaise Pascal
ignorance prejudice
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. Denis Diderot
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. Elbert Hubbard
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
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How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist. Adolf Hitler
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Aldous Huxley
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Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.
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So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.
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No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
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It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.
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Once we started doing those three things, we got going. Charles Howard
three
There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.
three lungs
Gareth Bale literally has three lungs Jamie Redknapp
three cry found
There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. Douglas Coupland
three mark seconds
Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago. D. J. MacHale
three income blind
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. Tom Lehrer
three economy guinea
To make three guineas do the work of five. Robert Burns
three married should
I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once. Sinead O'Connor
three lifetime poet
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master. Matsuo Basho
written
You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat. Sevyn Streeter
written
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. Allen Tate
written
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. Seamus Heaney
written
It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script. Mark Johnson
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The written word is everything. John Drinkwater
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Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. John Lydon
written
I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally. Lyle Lovett
written
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern. Van Morrison