At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Author: Richard Russo

Author: Richard Russo

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See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got

Author: Joel Osteen
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Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes i

Author: Blaise Pascal
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Author: Albert Schweitzer
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What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've

Author: Alan Brennert
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Author: George Orwell
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Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination

Author: Roman Payne
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The master initiate of any craft appears magical to the uninitiated.

Author: Bryant McGill
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Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to m

Author: Ruth Reichl
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The morning has gold in its mouth.

Author: Unknown
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Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to hi

Author: Dale Carnegie
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Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with un

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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But you said you love me. You don’t just leave after that.

Author: Ava Dellaira
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Leadership is about movement and growth.

Author: Mark Sanborn
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Don’t ask me to distance myself from the person I cannot become.

Author: Angelos Michalopoulos
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The world will be saved by one or two people.

Author: Andre Gide
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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but thes

Author: Anne Lamott
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This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely sur

Author: C. JoyBell C.
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Author: Oscar Wilde
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She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and

Author: Anthony Kiedis
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Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·

Author: Constantinos P. Cavafis
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True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Author: Unknown
Quote #169709

I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.

Author: Moira Young
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We momentarily discover our wings under life-threatening circumstances

Author: Asoka Nimal Jinadasa
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The highest creed is Universal Acceptance.

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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You had the courage to try and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Author: Norton Juster
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It's brain," I said; "pure brain! What do you do to get like that, Jeeves? I believe you must eat a

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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In California everyone goes to a therapist is a therapist or is a therapist going to a therapist.

Author: Truman Capote
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Mindfulness describes a "state of becoming" that places the individual beyond judgment and definitio

Author: Celeste Cooper
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She would have given up every Gathering from now until she went to join StarClan, if only she could

Author: Erin Hunter
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By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards

Author: Peter York
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I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I

Author: Ishmael Beah
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Your net worth depends on your added value

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silen

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See m

Author: Leslie Pietrzyk
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He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have bee

Author: R.A.Lucas
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Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

Author: Jean Rhys
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Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that

Author: Tom Ford
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Look into my eyes and deny me.

Author: Poppet
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself," Otto replied. "Oh, and a megalomaniacal headmaster, the wo

Author: Mark Walden
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Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to

Author: John Steinbeck
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Author: Woodrow Wilson
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I read. That's my form of travel.

Author: Michael Finkel
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What would the world be like if men never ruled again?

Author: David Vann
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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Author: Pete Rose
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No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor.

Author: Seneca
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There is no such thing as unconditional love," my mother told me. "I could stop loving you at any ti

Author: Elana K. Arnold
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The desire to understand is almost synonymous with the desire to simplify, and it is closely bound u

Author: Rupert Crawshay-Williams
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God could learn a little about love and morality from us. If there’s anyone who needs redemption, it

Author: Logan Kain
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One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she m

Author: Marcel Proust
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Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

Author: Ann Hood
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To live an effective life, you must understand the essence and secret of life

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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The clouds wept when my heart sand a song of sorrow

Author: Sonya Watson
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It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroy

Author: Louise Carey
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Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Author: Jim Rohn
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Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.

Author: Eunice Parisi-Carew
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Disconnect from society’s pressure to conform. Do things your own way.

Author: Fennel Hudson
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I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and t

Author: Angelina Jolie
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If you don't have a plan, you will never find enough time to finish a task.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Question is the Champion of Quest

Author: Vineet Raj Kapoor
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Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought

Author: Joe Blow
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reje

Author: Carl Sagan
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Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not onl

Author: Nicholas Sparks
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insuran

Author: Daniel Akaka
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Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Author: Sarah Dessen
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We take comfort in the notion of an unbridgeable gulf between good and evil, but maybe we should und

Author: Shane Bauer
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You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Per

Author: Kara Lee Corthron
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If called by a panther Don't anther.

Author: Ogden Nash
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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being pe

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #201169

Your dreams get perfect assistant if it goes connecting with great people.

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell p

Author: Guy Davenport
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No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with ge

Author: Patrick Modiano
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Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but o

Author: Steve Maraboli
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Warriors will always have wounds from the battle, but they are only stronger from them.

Author: Chris Burkmenn
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You never have anything because you fought for nothing.

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.

Author: Alice Hoffman
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The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Author: John Irving
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As the people came to a desert place to hear John the Baptist proclaim, “Thus saith the Lord,” so [m

Author: Billy Graham
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Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision.

Author: Dave Eggers
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The weak can never fall in love because love is an adventure.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Author: Brandon Sanderson
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Sometimes when you are sad enough , your soul becomes ghost for you.

Author: Irfan ishaq
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[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bibl

Author: Bart D. Ehrman
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I'd never opened up the gas station if it had been someone else, but I know Tucker's fond of you. It

Author: Unknown
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A kind of silence, if I may say, was walking through the house, and, like most silence, it was not s

Author: Truman Capote
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It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important

Author: Jeanette Winterson
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... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when

Author: Neal Stephenson
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If you want the time to pass quickly just give your note for 90 days.

Author: R. B. Thomas
Quote #198134

Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it—I thin

Author: Sarah Ruhl
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You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him f

Author: Jonathan Franzen
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She glanced at me brieflyI looked at her longingly,so she believed Finally relieved.

Author: Sumrit Shahi
Quote #15267

Tears are God's way of cleansing the heart.

Author: Rebecca Barlow Jordan
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Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee.

Author: William Kershner
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Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought n

Author: David Ben-Gurion
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When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage an

Author: Laurie Buchanan
Quote #58064

Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #31710

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for su

Author: Christine de Pizan
Quote #57925

You are to use this one life to make a difference in your world. You are to invest your time and not

Author: Sunday Adelaja