"The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off"

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Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Three at Wolfe's Door”, p.177, Crimeline

Rex Stout

#Alarms Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Absurd Quotes

“And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose.”
“Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.”
“Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.”
“There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.”
“I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.”
“It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.”

Source : St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.207, Jazzybee Verlag
“As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.”
“If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.”

Source : 1993 Time, 29 Nov.

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