"To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct."

-- Mark Twain

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“I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.”
“Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,â€”been happy.”
“I'm a man more dined against than dining.”

Source : In John Betjeman 'Summoned by Bells' (1960) ch. 9.
“Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.”
“everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.168, ReadHowYouWant.com
“At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?”
“Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality than analogue. I think if we can speak of reality, if reality and representation can be spoken of in the same sentence, if reality even exists any more, digital is simply another way of encoding that reality.”
“And what I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason as your congressman I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.”

Source : "Republican congressman: evolution is 'lies straight from the pit of hell'" by Alex Hern, www.newstatesman.com. October 8, 2012.

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