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This need for hostility bred what is called nihilistic humor—humor based on the theory that there is no person or thing so sacred as to be beyond ridicule. Humorists, protected

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To insist that the kingdom of God is only spiritual is to promote the status quo.

If a man publicly denounces poetry,His shoes will fill with urine.

It's very hard to write humor.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

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Ethan was inspired by Jerry Mander's 1991 polemic In the Absence of the Sacred

World War II was a news dispatch, nothing more, listened to and gone in the very next moment—replaced by thoughts of his three favorite subjects: girls and music and food.

The Giants on the Mountain by Luigi Pirandello.

He gave a grim meaning to this threat by killing three of his Sikh opponents in one week.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

Suppose your were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? and ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

It was a monstrous big river down there.