"What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness."

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Source : Flann O'Brien (1996). “The Third Policeman: A Novel”

Flann O'Brien

#Thinking Quotes #Sharpness Quotes

“It was a very, very strange experience to go through on social media. Before that, my social media life had been very tame. I had only just dipped my toes in the world of Twitter and was throwing out a tweet, here and there, of very boring and normal stuff. All of a sudden, Pornstache just turned my world upside down.”
“The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.”
“Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.”
“It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.20, Stanford University Press
“Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both of us, I am sure, have experienced ad nauseam the technical satisfactions of this wretched war. But now your own side is going to shoot you. Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?”
“My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.”
“I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!”
“Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?”

Source : Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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