"My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu."

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Source : "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

Kirby Wright

#Growing Up Quotes #Dark Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I try to use pain as fuel for my work.”
“I love Lil Wayne, that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.”

Source : "Lil Wayne is 'much funnier' after detoxing in jail, Fat Joe says" by Jaysin Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. July 8, 2010.
“War itself is the enemy of the human race.”
“So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.”
“I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case.”
“In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.”
“Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.”
“In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!”

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