"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."

-- Mark Twain

#Humor Quotes #Forever Quotes #Literature Quotes

“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”

Source : Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media
“I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.”
“I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.”
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”
“Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.”

Source : "Fictional Politics" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.
“Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?â€ Her stomach twisted. â€œNo.â€ She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadnâ€™t had the gift before? That she couldnâ€™t have used it against him? â€œI would never lieâ€”â€ The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. â€œIâ€™m so sorry,â€ she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. â€œYouâ€™re even more painful to look at than she is.”
“To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.”
“I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician.”

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