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“Write on the gravestone: ‘Does this coffin make me look fat?’ ”
What a last line!
Grief is a selfish bacteria, it demands all our attention.
What a great line!
said that if fire was a discovery, then pockets were also a discovery, because pockets are like the ass cracks of pants, some caveman put his hand between his buttocks and decided, ‘Hey! I can keep my keys here! We should have these in our clothes!’ ”
Such a funny line about pockets being a discovery like fire.
well. Dear God, how they all laughed, until their spines popped like Bubble Wrap, a fart really is the best chiropractor if you know how to appreciate it.
What a great line!
Bodil Malmsten
“Where does the poop go?” “Excuse me?” “The poop people poop on the train, where does it go?” Ted clears his throat the way the most uncomfortable man in the world would clear his throat. “I… I assume there’s some sort of container beneath the train.” “What happens if that gets full, then? Do they just empty the poop onto the tracks, or what?” He looks almost shocked by the idea. “I don’t know. Maybe.” She thinks for a long time before asking, very seriously: “What if it’s really windy outside? So if you were walking next to the rails, you’d get a poop tornado right in your face?” “I’ve never
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“It’s unbelievable that evolution even gave boys penises, because you can’t be trusted with anything,” Ali muttered.
Too funny about boys and penises.
“Art is coincidence.
Art is coincidence.... something to think further about.
Agatha Christie said that two coincidences are a clue, three coincidences are a proof.
only someone who still has all their people left wants to stop time. He replies
We don't want to lose old friends.
his face is as red as a priest in a brothel. He feels embarrassed, not only because of the sneezing, but also because he’s
Face as red as s priest in a brothel. where does he think these up?
“Picasso said it took him four years to learn to paint like Raphael, but a whole lifetime to learn to paint like a child.”
A line many have repeated at art seminars.
Ragnar Sandberg,”
Swedish bpainter
Georgia O’Keeffe: “It never occurs to me that skulls have anything to do with death.”
Georgia pledge on skulls
Marina Abramović:
The most dangerous place on earth is inside us.
What's inside us?
Then he quoted Frida Kahlo, who said she painted flowers so they wouldn’t die. And Leonardo da Vinci, who said that art was never finished, only abandoned.
Love references to artists, Kahlo, CA Vinci.
footsteps behind them and Joar turned around like he always did, fists clenched, prepared for war. The minister walking down the aisle jumped in surprise. “Terribly sorry, you startled me,” he smiled. “Don’t creep up on people in churches, you psychopath!” Joar roared back at him. “I… work here,” the minister said in his defense. “Like I care, you psychopath!” Joar pointed out. The minister looked like he didn’t exactly know what to do with that information. So instead he turned sympathetically toward Ted and said: “I’m very sorry for the loss of your father.” “What for? Was it you who killed
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The whole conversation with minister in church is worth discussion.
Zeuxis and Parrhasius,
Donna Tartt
he and Mom weren’t like two magnets. They were like two colors. Once they were mixed together, there was no way of separating them.”
Interesting way of describing relationship between two people.
C. Jat. The initials of Christian, Joar, Ali, and
The artists name. a combination of the four of them.
