"If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it."

-- Stephen Colbert

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“In many college English courses the words â€œmythâ€ and â€œsymbolâ€ are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ainâ€™t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that thatâ€™s how Melville did it.”
“Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.”
“The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.”
“Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team?”
“I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.”
“I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.”
“There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.”
“Whatever is is a movement; man is a movement-to something other than man.”

Source : Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”

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