"Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke."

-- Berkeley Breathed

#Tears Quotes #Deconstruction Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.”

Source : Sara Maitland, The School of Life (2014). “How to Be Alone”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
“As long as there is a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.”
“One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists mainly through academic channels. Students are exposed to her novels, and some read her, then, on their own, but some also go to grad school: teach her, write about her, keep her going.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“The point is to be free, not to be crazy.”
“[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.”
“Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.”

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.135, Macmillan
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
“A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of 'success' to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed.”

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