"English is my second language. Laughter is my first."

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Source : "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

Paul Krassner

#Laughter Quotes #Humor Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House
“I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.”
“The Holy Eucharist is a need of the heart of Christ, just as it is a need of our hearts." "Sanctify and dedicate yourselves in all things in the spirit of love which prompted Our Lord to institute the Holy Eucharist, wherein He perpetuates the gift of His love to the glory of the Father.”
“At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.”
“Each childâ€™s story is worthy of telling. There shouldnâ€™t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.”
“We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos.Â Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”
“Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.”

Source : Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.277
“My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.”

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