"The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life."

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Source : V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.361, A&C Black

V. S. Pritchett

#Humorous Quotes #Hopeless Quotes #Uncouth Quotes

“It's time to begin righting the story of your life.”
“Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”
“As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.”
“And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.”
“It's one of the things that makes it enjoyable to keep playing; you have to approach each set differently and make some balance between what you want to do and what seems right.”
“Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace.”

Source : "Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure". Book by Richard E. Byrd, 1938.
“She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.”
“Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too”

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