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Quotes About Absurdity

With: Go Ferchios off to Allad out of this! An oldsteinsong. He threwed his fit up to his aers, rolled his poligone eyes, snivelled from his snose and blew the guff out of his hornypipe.
~ James Joyce
The post-modern novel is now conceding, if not its absurdity, then its limited durability.
~ James Joyce
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~ James Joyce
resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due instalments plan. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak another vernacular, so to speak.
~ James Joyce
And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye.
~ James Kelman
big as a horse turd floating in a milk shake. Wyatt Dixson
~ James Lee Burke
Emmeline seemed to lie the way all narcissists do. Whatever they say, regardless of its absurdity, becomes the truth.
~ James Lee Burke
I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing
~ James Patterson
Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.
~ James Patterson
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~ James Patterson
You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
~ Dana Perino
When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.
~ Ali Liebegott
I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.
~ Steven Wright
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
~ Steven Weinberg
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
~ Alexander Herzen
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
~ J. K. Rowling
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
~ Shannon L. Alder
My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.
~ Jonathan Krisel
Whenever I'm on my way to a premiere or something, I always have a good laugh in the car... because it's all so absurd - I'm one generation removed from starvation.
~ John Cho
I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.
~ John Lydon
With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.
~ Loni Love
A cartoon in the New Yorker captured the absurdity with a scene of airline passengers in a populist mutiny of their own: "These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us," bellows one of them. "Who thinks I should fly the plane?
~ Thomas Frank
The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves.
~ Thomas Keneally