"How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing."

-- Les Dawson

“Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”
“Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.”

Source : Source: theurbandaily.com
“The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.”
“During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.”
“I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!”

Source : Fanny Fern (2017). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.90, Litres
“Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world...”

Source : Nnedi Okorafor (2008). “Zahrah the Windseeker”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I love to draw. I spend hours every day drawing.”
“Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.”

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