"A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark."

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Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.425, Faber & Faber

Louis MacNeice

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“I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.”

Source : "Stand-up comics try to stand out on TV" by Sherri Sylvester, www.cnn.com. August 13, 1999.
“Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.”
“Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.”
“One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
“We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.”
“Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.”
“I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.”
“My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.”

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