"In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!"

-- Francisco de Quevedo

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.”
“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
“A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.”
“Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.”
“The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.”
“Stories are the reproductive organs of language.”

Source : Robert Bringhurst (2004). “Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America”, University of Manitoba Press
“I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.”

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