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""In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.""
—
Steve Aylett
tags:
humor
6 people liked it
"The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice."
—
Steve Aylett
(
Bigot Hall
)
2 people liked it
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
—
Douglas Adams
tags:
fiction
,
humor
,
science
343 people liked it
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity the merely improbable lacks."
—
Douglas Adams
tags:
humor
63 people liked it
"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
—
Douglas Adams
tags:
humor
,
science
61 people liked it
"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."
—
Douglas Adams
tags:
humor
,
science
48 people liked it
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
—
Douglas Adams
tags:
humour
,
life
28 people liked it
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
—
Graham Greene
(
The End of the Affair
)
9 people liked it
"If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!"
—
Philip K. Dick
11 people liked it
"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane."
—
H.P. Lovecraft
tags:
dance
,
dancing
,
life
88 people liked it
"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
—
William Gibson
89 people liked it
"Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth."
—
Jean Baudrillard
tags:
americans
,
identity
2 people liked it
"When I amd dead, I hope it may be said:
His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
—
Hilaire Belloc
2 people liked it
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