“I’m totally crazy, I know that. I don’t say that to be a smartass, but I know that that’s the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that’s fine. I don’t do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can’t not do it.”

— Maurice Sendak (via Mental Floss)

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I happen to think that the main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the “closed mode” to the “open mode” quicker than anything else.

— John Cleese

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“The only difference between me and the surrealists is that I am a surrealist.”

— Salvador Dali

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“I will be mailing you pictures of cows having sex everyday, because it isn’t illegal.”

- Eugene Mirman

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I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying, “Oh yeah! Well, fuck you!” I thought I had won.

- Ron White

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Going “ooooh” after a joke is just like laughing…but for pussies.”

- Anthony Jeselnick

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I’m joking, but I’m serious.

- Charles Barkley

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We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer’s task is to invent the reality.

- J.G. Ballard

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My favorite stuff is really the weird shit.

Chris Rock on the WTF with Marc Maron Podcast.

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It was possible to feel superior to other people and like a misfit at the same time.

Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot

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Originally Posted By ableparris

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale (via ableparris)

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Originally Posted By libraryland

Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.

Mark Twain (via libraryland)

(via housingworksbookstore)

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You want 10% of the world to love you, not 90% to like you.

— Sam Kinison as quoted by Lisa Lampanelli

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People who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of people who are doing it.

George Bernard Shaw

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