"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself."

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Clifton Fadiman

#Funny Inspirational Quotes #Sense Of Humor Quotes #Ability Quotes

“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
“All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.”
“Sometimes in your life you need a little bit of a push.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“To be a liberal one doesn't have to be a wastrel.”
“Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.”
“It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract. This misconception has been foisted upon us by mediaeval logic. Art and poetry deal with the concrete of nature, not with separate 'particulars,' for such rows do not exist.”

Source : Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.54, Fordham University Press
“There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.”
“I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.”

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