"I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable."

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Source : "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

Joshua Ferris

#Effort Quotes #Absurd Quotes

“I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.”
“Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be abundantly clear by now, nothing inside a frame can state, or even ask, anything about that frame. The solution, then, is not the finding of an answer to the riddle of existence, but the realization that there is no riddle. This is the essence of the beautiful, almost Zen Buddhist closing sentences of the Tracticus: "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist."”

Source : Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson, Bill O'Hanlon (2011). “Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company
“I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.”
“I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft.”

Source : Song: Man! I Feel like a Woman!
“You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.”

Source : Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo (2015). “Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”

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