— Ernest Hemingway
Quotes
…humor is a violation of straight-line thinking.
— from How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
Failure always brings something valuable with it.
— Scott Adams, from How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
You can’t stage an epiphany.
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt
The more personal it is, the more universal it is.
— Judd Apatow, interviewed in Esquire, about the greatest showbiz lesson he’s learned
It was hard to feel weird in a place where everybody was weird.
— from The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Basically they were just assholes, though, and took it as the measure of God’s satisfaction with them that everybody else thought they were assholes.
from The Peripheral by William Gibson
“Life is short, even on its longest days.”
— Mellencamp
Some people need to be the victim. It excuses them for being a piece of shit.
(This also explains some shit about some people I had the misfortune of knowing.)
