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Jerry once recalled a time when he noticed Jim staring intently at a Muppet Show script, carefully examining a particularly bad gag. He asked Jim if perhaps the joke was too bad to use in the show. “No,” Jim replied. “It’s an awful joke,
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“But by reading their books, I saw the other side of them - their humanity. Somehow I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth.”
― The Mountains Sing
― The Mountains Sing
“I want to share all this in one place because if we talk, things get better, and more people we love might stick around so we can love them more.”
― The Hilarious World of Depression
― The Hilarious World of Depression
“I believe in every possible manifestation of spiritual strangeness. I believe in all possible escapes. The only thing I cannot endure is reality, whatever it may be. I believe that the writer is defined by the constant necessity of creating a world, to depart from this world. Literature is more concerned with misery than with happiness. Writing is directly related to frustration. It is a reflection of personal desperation. The writer is profoundly disgusted with his reality.”
― On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey – A Humanizing Exploration of the US-Mexico Border, Immigration Debate, and the Layered World of a Region in Conflict
― On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey – A Humanizing Exploration of the US-Mexico Border, Immigration Debate, and the Layered World of a Region in Conflict
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