Jon Stewart  - Quotes

 If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?  

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Jon Stewart  - Quotes

 I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. 

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Jon Stewart  - Quotes

 Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. 

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Albert Camus  - Quotes

 Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my

revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of

consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation

to death
 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland. 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel. 

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Carl Sagan  - Quotes

 The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.

She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe.

It required bandaging.
 

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Albert Camus  - Quotes

 Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.

I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.
 

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Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do 

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John Calvin  - Quotes

 It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility  

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Tim Burton  - Quotes

 They took a baseball bat

and whacked open his head.

Mummy Boy fell to the ground;

he finally was dead.

Inside of his head

were no candy or prizes,

jast a few stray bettles

of various sizes.
 

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William Goldman  - Quotes

 Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. 

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Voltaire  - Quotes

 As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket.

He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.
 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 To you, I'm an atheist.

To God, I'm the loyal opposition.
 

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Steven Wright  - Quotes

 If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell. 

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Tim Burton  - Quotes

 Stick Boy liked Match Girl,

He liked her a lot.

He liked her cute figure,

he thought she was hot.

But could a flame ever burn

for a match and a stick?

It did quite literally;

he burned up quick.
 

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, OK?

It'll be a year come April 20th.

I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday
 

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Steven Wright  - Quotes

 Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff? 

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Samuel Beckett  - Quotes

 I can't go on, I'll go on. 

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Eddie Izzard  - Quotes

 What have you been reading, The Gospel according to St. Bastard?! 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. 

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J.R.R. Tolkien  - Quotes

 Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. 

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Steven Wright  - Quotes

 Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film. 

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Douglas Adams  - Quotes

 He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there. 

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George Orwell  - Quotes

 The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. 

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Franz Kafka  - Quotes

 A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die. 

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Bill Watterson  - Quotes

 HOBBES:

All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
 

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Tori Amos  - Quotes

 Never was a cornflake girl;

Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.
 

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Garrison Keillor  - Quotes

 Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier. 

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Niels Bohr  - Quotes

 Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. 

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Philip K. Dick  - Quotes

 A man is an angel that has gone deranged. 

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Terry Pratchett  - Quotes

 No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know! 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima' 

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Theodore Kaczynski  - Quotes

 Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. 

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Kurt Vonnegut  - Quotes

 The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. 

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Michael Cunningham  - Quotes

 Beauty is a whore, I like money better. 

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Steven Wright  - Quotes

 When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. 

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Steven Wright  - Quotes

 I had a quicksand box as a kid. I was an only child... eventually. 

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George Orwell  - Quotes

 Beautiful thing, the destruction of words.  

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Alexander McCall Smith  - Quotes

 Remember the Hottentots? 

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