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Garrison Keillor
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."
— Garrison Keillor
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Woody Allen
"To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
— Woody Allen
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Woody Allen
"It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel."
— Woody Allen
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Woody Allen
"I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland."
— Woody Allen
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William Goldman
"Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)
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Jon Stewart
"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion."
— Jon Stewart
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Jon Stewart
"If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us? "
— Jon Stewart
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Franz Kafka
"A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die."
— Franz Kafka
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Woody Allen
"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."
— Woody Allen
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George Orwell
"Beautiful thing, the destruction of words. "
— George Orwell
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Woody Allen
"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."
— Woody Allen
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Woody Allen
"A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.
I have the strength of one small boy... with polio."
— Woody Allen
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Tim Burton
"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."
— Tim Burton (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy" and Other Stories)
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Bill Watterson
"HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once."
— Bill Watterson
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"I'm betting that I'm just abnormal enough to survive."
— The Tick
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Niels Bohr
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
— Niels Bohr
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Eddie Izzard
"What have you been reading, The Gospel according to St. Bastard?!"
— Eddie Izzard
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Michael Cunningham
"Beauty is a whore, I like money better."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)
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Woody Allen
"I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier."
— Woody Allen
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Kurt Vonnegut
"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."
— Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan)
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T.H. White
"Anything not forbidden is compulsory."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
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"A man is an angel that has gone deranged."
— Philip K Dick
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Tori Amos
"Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls."
— Tori Amos (Tori Amos: Under the Pink)
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Woody Allen
"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"
— Woody Allen
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"Lisa's bad dancing makes my feet sad.
"
— Ralph Wiggum
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"Your eyes needs diapers."
— Ralph Wiggum
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Woody Allen
"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."
— Woody Allen
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"God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist."
— Merritt Y. Hughes (Ten Perspectives on Milton)
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Tim Burton
"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."
— Tim Burton (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories)
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"My mind has always been my Achilles' heel!"
— The Tick
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"I bent my Wookie."
— Ralph Wiggum
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"As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach."
— John Swartzwelder
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"Ah, savory cheese puffs, made inedible by time and fate. "
— The Tick
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Vivian Mercier
"[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice."
— Vivian Mercier
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Woody Allen
"Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe.
It required bandaging."
— Woody Allen
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"I am the wild blue yonder. The front line in a never-ending battle between good and not-so-good. Together with my stalwart sidekick, Arthur, and the magnanimous help of some other folks I know, we form the yin to villany's malevolent yang. Destiny has chosen us. Wicked men, you face The Tick."
— The Tick
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"Even my boogers are spicy.
"
— Ralph Wiggum
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"Like a great blue salmon of Justice, the mighty Tick courses upstream to the very spawning ground of evil. "
— The Tick
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