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“The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.”

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Robert Orben was an American writer known for his humorous and satirical writing style. Born on March 4, 1927, he was a prolific comedy writer, creating a vast array of works for television, radio, and the stage. more

“Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.”

Religion Buddhism Civilization Tests Importance Excellence Busy Refuse Meat Combat Fierce Hunters Battlefields Adventurer

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."”

Thinking Used Fiction Opinion Novel Too Much Heard Contemporary Streams Agamemnon

Author:James Joyce

“I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.”

Men Writing Littles Book Funny Names Identity Humorous Rings Silly Pope Elegance Little Man Shelley Appropriateness Chaucer Silly Little Ribald

Author:James Joyce

“Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.”

Lasts Young Lines Sky Land Figures Moon Waste Lows Wave Evening Fallen Sand Silver Pool Tides Pale Grey Embedded Rims

Book:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Places remember events.”

Remember Events

Book:Joyce's Ulysses notesheets in the British Museum

Source: Joyce's Ulysses notesheets in the British Museum

“Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.”

Wife Weak Fellows Weak Points

Book:Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.”

World Long Remember Desire Beauty Arms Presses Rounds Forgotten Wraps Faded Loveliness

Book:James Joyce The Dover Reader

Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader

“Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.”

Heart Would Be Feet My Heart Charity

Book:James Joyce: The Complete Novels (Book House)

Source: James Joyce: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.”

Needs Humor Three Silence Exile Three Things Irishmen

Author:James Joyce

“You cannot eat your cake and have it.”

Cake Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

Book:Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

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