"When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Elif Batuman

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.”
“I still think about the time when I was fighting for my first real big fight against [Marco Antonio] Barrera back in 2002. I know he can come in thinking that he has nothing to lose, and that's why I have to be aware of that.Always be prepared.”
“Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
“Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.”

Source : Charles Macomb Flandrau (1927). “Viva Mexico!”
“I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.”
“One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.”
“There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.”
“The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.”

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