"I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now."

-- Ricky Gervais

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“The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldnâ€™t look too closely at another personâ€™s pain.”
“I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.”
“I was taking the bad boy off the market for good.”
“Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.”
“Iâ€™m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but Iâ€™d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan â€œa genius.â€ My science teacher told me that television was â€œthe new opiate of the massesâ€ and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.”
“It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.”
“All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.”

Source : "Snare". Book by Katharine Kerr, 2003.
“Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.”

Source : "John Hurt: 'I'd be a rubbish spy'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2011.

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