"It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke."

-- Maureen Johnson

#Funny Life Quotes #Lines Quotes #Brevity Quotes

“Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.”
“I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.”
“When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.”
“I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 24), 2004.
“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think any sort of system that gives teachers more opportunities like teacher-led schools is a positive one that's going to lead to better retention in the profession, and it's going to be more intellectually challenging, so teachers stay engaged with their work over the many years of their career.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature....”
“It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.”

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