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Comedy is the art of telling the truth about what it’s like to be human.
Basic definition. Congruent with Vorhaus.
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.”
― Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
― Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
“In teaching her about oppression, be careful not to turn the oppressed into saints. Saintliness is not a prerequisite for dignity. People who are unkind and dishonest are still human, and still deserve dignity.”
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“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.”
― The Seven Storey Mountain
― The Seven Storey Mountain
KMO’s 2025 Year in Books
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