“Like tragedy, comedy warns against the dangers of pride, but its emphasis shifts from crime to stupidity.” — Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History
Category: Quotations
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“It don’t take no nerve to do somepin when there ain’t nothin’ else you can do.” — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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“I began to think of myself as a terrific underdog. There’s a certain security and exhilaration in that.” — Kay Ryan, The Art of Poetry No. 94, The Paris Review (Winter 2008)
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“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day’s receipts.” — Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor
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“Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.” — Gwendolyn Brooks, Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle
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“Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.” — Kevin Kelly, 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
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“Technicalities are, however, of more interest to historians than to contemporaries.” — Marion L. Starkey, The Devil in Massachusetts
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“Life is a journey, and you can’t carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.” — Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202, The Paris Review (Winter 2009)
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“Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.” — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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“A mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.” — Lydia Davis, Liminal: Little Man
