"Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Comforting Quotes #Comedian Quotes #Littles Quotes

“As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive”
“If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.”
“Normally, you have all this knowledge from all the films that you've done that you've accumulated over the years, and you can constantly look back when you're in some sort of fix and say, "Well, on so-and-so film, we did this, and it worked out fine." You can point to these things, and you can have that assurance.”

Source : "Blair Witch director Adam Wingard on his most straightforward movie yet". Interview with Katie Rife, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2016.
“The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.”
“I love playing in the UK because there are some topics that you just can't talk about in the States without getting run out of town. So let me just say this: Louis C. K.'s new show sucks.”
“In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.”
“Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'”
“...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.”

Source : Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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