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“over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”

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David Mitchell is a British novelist known for his unique narrative techniques and profound humanistic concerns. His works often blend humor, satire, and philosophical thinking, winning him a wide audience. more

“Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.”

Thinking Men May Made Able Earth Water Born One Day Witty Swim Steppenwolf

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.”

Country Shows Past Lines Television Conversation Television Shows Past And Present

Book:Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

“Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.”

People Important Self Social Interest Support Laughing Comedy Behavior Illusion Tragedy Ridiculous Gravity Inferiors Narcissistic Pathology Vested Interests It Support

Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.”

Different Life Is Situation Complexes

Author:Sarah Brightman

“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

Ifs Way Long Bigs Past Alive Intellectual Curiosity Usual Big Things Insatiable Unafraid Birthdays And Aging Disintegration Intellectual Curiosity

Author:Daniel Handler

“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”

Objects Leaves Of Grass

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”

Ifs Want Stuff Friendship Alive Mets Glad Staying Alive Catchers Holden Caulfield

Author:J. D. Salinger

“A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.”

Ifs May Fall Hurt Courage Thirds High Places

Author:Paulo Coelho

“We are stronger together.' Dar looked into Kale's eyes...He turned to Lee Ark and nodded pointedly at the hole through which Kale stared. 'It seems to me that we have a problem in this togetherness thing.”

Problem Seems Eye Together Stronger Holes Togetherness Ark Kale Stronger Together

Author:Donita K. Paul

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