"If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well."

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Source : 1986 Coasting, ch.6.

Jonathan Raban

#Worst Quotes #Wells Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“With great victory comes great sacrifice.”
“Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth”

Source : "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.
“It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the Captain Underpants books too challenging. Dont get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books arent hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.”
“Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains...”
“Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.”
“It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.”
“We were two and had but one heart.”

Source : "Le Grand Testament" by François Villon, 'Lay', Line 986,, 1461.

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