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“If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.”

Book:In Our Town

Work

In Our Town

Written by American playwright Thornton Wilder, In Our Town is a poignant reflection on the ordinary experiences of everyday life. The play is set in the fictional town of Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, and follows the lives of its residents over the course of three acts. It is renowned for its poetic language and its ability to capture the essence of human existence. more

Author

William Allen White

William Allen White was an American editor, born on February 10, 1868, and died on January 29, 1944. He is known for his work at The Kansas City Star, which under his leadership became a model for the American press. more

“I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.”

“I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes”

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Author:George Carlin

“[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.”

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Book:Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

“She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.”

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Book:Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

“Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.”

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Author:Fred Allen

“Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.”