"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."

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Robertson Davies

#Lying Quotes #Roots Quotes #Sense Of Humor Quotes

“Even then, I didn't quite know what to make of it [captain Kirk death]. I was mystified by why I was doing it, why I was so driven to do it, and why it was affecting me like it was. I still don't know what it means. It's a strange singular experience. I don't even know anyone to talk to about it because I don't know anyone who's had that experience.”
“With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”
“the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions”
“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.”
“I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.”
“His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this-or more accurately, because of this-his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz-at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.”

Source : "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.
“Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know itâ€™s over. There is no safe. There is no control.”
“Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.”

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