"I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity."

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Source : Interview with Burgin Streetman, www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com. July 1, 2013.

Tomi Ungerer

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up ***** entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books
“Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close.”
“I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.”
“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
“I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.”
“I won't do something just for the sake of working.”

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