"Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible."

-- Cynthia Ozick

#Spring Quotes #Reality Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“Self-parody is the first portent of age.”
“That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.”
“Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.”
“It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.”

Source : "Paul Muldoon: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 26, 2003.
“Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.”
“The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Nov 16, 2013
“A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It would have been better if the United Nations had sent a team to Mali right away to mediate between the government and the rebels. But where is the political initiative? The Americans make their usual recommendations. They want to train the army for the fight with the rebels. US special forces are already in Mali.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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