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Stephen Fry quote: "Between funny and witty. Falls the shadow"

Between funny and witty. Falls the shadow

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The demon say’s “Do you view sexual acts between individuals of the same gender to be an abomination?”… “Do you approve,” the demon says, “of marriage between individuals of differing racial backgrounds?” The demon continues without hesitation, asking, “Should the Zionist state of Israel be allowed to exist?” Question after question, I’m stumped. Even fingers crossed. The paradox: Is God a racist, homophobic, anti-semantic ass? Or is God testing to see if I am? Chuck Palahniuk
Bobby Darin quote: "It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your..."
It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it. Bobby Darin
Let your beauty manifest itselfwithout talking and calculation.You are silent. It says for you: I am.And comes in meaning thousandfold,comes at long last over everyone. Rainer Maria Rilke
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "If countries were named after the words you first hear when..."
If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It". Georg C. Lichtenberg
First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. Benjamin Tucker
But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude--and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. ***Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.***...perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that... Joseph Conrad
Laurie Anderson quote: "Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments..."
Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. Laurie Anderson
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief. Paul Ryan
Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They don’t change your size or your skin color. They leave in your disgusting knuckles, but they may take out some armpit stubble. Not because they’re denying its existence, but because they understand that it’s okay to make a photo look as if you were caught on your best day in the best light. Tina Fey
I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more. Jo Stafford
Jules Renard quote: "As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it..."
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more. Jules Renard
Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence and medicine power. For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart. Two such opposd kings encamp them still, In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will. And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. (Inside the little rind of this weak flower, there is both poison and powerful medicine. If you smell it, you feel good all over your... William Shakespeare
I met a reverend mother once who cried...ah, it's all so sad' - 'What did she cry about?' - 'I don't know, after talking to me, I remember I said some silly thing like "the universe is a woman because it's round" but I think she cried because she was remembering her early days when she had a romance with some soldier who died, at least that's what they say, she was the greatest woman I ever saw, big blue eyes, big smart woman ... you could do that, get out of this awful mess and leave it all... Jack Kerouac
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word. Ben Kingsley
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello? Bill Watterson