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“Listening to other opinions was invariably more profitable than antagonizing their owners by pointing out tiresome objections.”
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“Snowflakes fell from the sky like tiny pieces of a snowman who had stood on a landmine.”
― I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
― I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
― The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy
― The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy
“The human brain comprises 70% water, which means it's a similar consistency to tofu. Picture that for a second - a blob of tofu the size and shape of a brain. Now imagine taking that piece of tofu, and forcing your thumbs into it hard. It would burst wouldn't it?
Okay, now imagine those thumbs weren't thumbs but thumb-shaped pieces of bad news. And there weren't two of them, they were about half a dozen. Imagine you were forcing all six pieces of bad news - a divorce, multiple career snubs, accusations from the family of a dead celebrity, estranged kids, borderline homelessness, that kind of thing - into a piece of tofu.
With me? Good. Now imagine it's not tofu, but a human brain. And they're not pieces of bad news but six human thumbs. That's what happened to me. In 2001, my brain had half a dozen thumbs pushed into it.”
― I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
Okay, now imagine those thumbs weren't thumbs but thumb-shaped pieces of bad news. And there weren't two of them, they were about half a dozen. Imagine you were forcing all six pieces of bad news - a divorce, multiple career snubs, accusations from the family of a dead celebrity, estranged kids, borderline homelessness, that kind of thing - into a piece of tofu.
With me? Good. Now imagine it's not tofu, but a human brain. And they're not pieces of bad news but six human thumbs. That's what happened to me. In 2001, my brain had half a dozen thumbs pushed into it.”
― I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
“The most successful critics are always scribbling things in their programs, largely because it gives them an important and industrious air. Also, it is interesting to try to figure out what you've written afterward. Last week, for instance, I made a very helpful note during the second act of a drama called "They Walk Alone." "Lanchstr get face stuck 1 these nights awful if," it seemed to say.”
― Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker
― Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker
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