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quotes – April 2019

…when guys continually laugh at the same things, it means more than sharing the same sense of humor: it’s sharing the same world of referential knowledge, the same moral philosophy. Your laughter acknowledges similar wiring without revealing anything.
Wayne Gladstone – Agents of the Internet Apocalypse

 

They say knowing is half the battle, but they don’t tell you there is no second half, and fifty percent of anything is never a solution.
Wayne Gladstone – Agents of the Internet Apocalypse

 

It takes a village to raise a village idiot.
Loretta Ross – Death and the Red-Headed Woman

 

I was a little drunk.  Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises

 

It’s a lovely nose. Go on, point it at me.
Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises

 

We’re all just dumb animals that ruin everything we touch.
Howard Odentz – Dead (A Lot)

 

If I understood what you were talking about, I’d no doubt have a neat retort.
Jonathan Stroud – The Whispering Skull

Joy has a way of interfering with misery.
Susannah J. Ural – Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades

 

Don’t read your old diaries when you’re depressed.
Lorna Lanvik – Best to Laugh

 

It is not easy to live in a world of men. It seems they do not think as I do.
Judith Redman Robbins – Coyote Woman



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