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"A little nonsense now and then,
Is cherished by the wisest men."
— John August (3 Engel für Charlie)
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Lewis Carroll
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
— The Mad Hatter"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)
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Kurt Vonnegut
"in nonsense is strength"
— Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions)
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Pseudonymous Bosch
"Xxxx xxxx x xxxx, xxxxx xxx x xxx xxx x xxxx. Xxxx xxxx xxxx x xxxxx xxxx xx Xxxxxxx."
— Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret)
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"Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense."
— Gary Zukav
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"The fieldmouse is fast, but the owl can see at night."
— Ricky Bobby
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James Joyce
"But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines. "
— James Joyce (Finnegans Wake)
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"Can`t you see that I`m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?"
— Titus Petronius Niger
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"The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!""
— Lewis Carrol (Alice Through the Looking-Glass)
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Nancy Mitford
"...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever Jassy said, in a certain tone of voice, pointing her finger with a certain look, "Fancy?" I think they hardly knew why, themselves."
— Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate)
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