"There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time."

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Source : Jostein Gaarder (1997). “The Solitaire Mystery”, Berkley Publishing Group

Jostein Gaarder

#Generations Quotes #Earth Quotes #Fool Quotes

“Opulence is the law of the universe, an abundant supply for every need if nothing is put in the way of its coming.”

Source : Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
“In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.”
“I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.”
“When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.”
“The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.”
“I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.”

Source : Source: www.golfdigest.com
“The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.”
“I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels for this position. To them, it's not necessarily that Dylan doesn't merit the highest honour. It's that he doesn't merit this specific highest honour [Nobel prize], in the way a champion pole vaulter shouldn't be given a medal for the long jump. It is in this group that the Wahey!s are mainly to be found, firing off jests, or mock solemnly reciting Dylan's sillier lyrics as if these are entirely representative of his oeuvre.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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