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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from…
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the…
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such…
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within…
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to…
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long..…
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a…
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and…
— Walter Savage Landor
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When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated…
— Unknown Author
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Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down…
— Joseph Furphy
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
— Oscar Wilde
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
— Flann O'Brien
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When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each…
— David Foster Wallace
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Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got…
— John Green
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A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in…
— Shashi Tharoor
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Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.
— Michael Leunig
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A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.
— Honore De Balzac
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