Affection Quote by Richard Brautigan

“Reflection of the Past, Acceptance of What Was, and the Discovery of the Humor in All Things Heals Even the Deepest of Wounds”

— Kate Corsen

“In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally…

— Laini Taylor

“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes…

— Siri Hustvedt

Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects…

— E. B. White

“Looking back, retrospectively on the events of that evening, I can see the irony — the shrink whose cat ate his own tail. At…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“The crowd laughs at the parody. Weep, ladies, over your own fate, when you see the misery of imprisoned matter, of tortured matter which…

— Bruno Schulz

“The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn’t kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things…

— Jim Butcher

“He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before our nigger;…

— Joseph Conrad

“My intellect, my wit—I’d forgotten I’d even possessed them, and they were dull and neglected, to be sure. But in the company of others…

— Melanie Benjamin

“Throughout my life I have seen, without one exception, narrow-shouldered men performing innumerable idiotic acts, brustalising their fellows, and corrupted souls by every means.…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“I recalled a theory my father had concocted one night, while we sat in an Oakland juke joint sharing a plate of ribs. He'd…

— Danzy Senna

“People often say that the English are very cold fish, very reserved, that they have a way of looking at things – even tragedy…

— Michel Houellebecq