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“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.” - Walt Whitman
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I'm new here, and I do apologize in advance, but this quote has been dogging me for years.
"if parody alone can adequately render the reality of our times, only irony offers us the freedom and detachment that are essential conditions of responsible analysis and action."
Theodore Ziolkoroski (in the forward to Herman Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game")
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(Semi-Transparent Fellow, since we all seem to be hot to post funny/wise/weird quotes on this topic, you may not have much luck in starting a discussion on any one quote here. But new topics can be whatever you want it to be. )
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” - Matt Groening
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reep: [QB] (Semi-Transparent Fellow, since we all seem to be hot to post funny/wise/weird quotes on this topic, you may not have much luck in starting a discussion on any one quote here. But new topics can be whatever you want it to be. )
Reep, comment well taken. Discuss was not meant seriously.
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"... rejection kills -- disappointment only maims." -- Jeanine Garafalo, "The Truth About Cats & Dogs"
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“The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.” - Nick Hornby
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“Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form spokes. Happiness is when he stops.” - Jack Handey
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