"I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged."

-- Jerome K. Jerome

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“Genesee beer. The great outdoors in a glass.”
“I went to college to play football, not to study it.”
“Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.”
“It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.92, A&C Black
“[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.”
“Verbs. All of them tiring.”
“The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.”
“I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.”

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