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George Carlin
“But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.”
George Carlin, Last Words

Bill Hicks
“Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.”
Bill Hicks

Charlie Brooker
“Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

It's nothing to do with sheer numbers. Move me to a remote cottage in the Hebrides and I'd learn to despise the postman, even if he only visited once a year. I can't abide other people, with their stink and their noise and their irritating ringtones. Bill Hicks called the human race 'a virus with shoes', and if you ask me he was being unduly hard on viruses; I'd consider a career in serial killing if the pay wasn't so bad.”
Charlie Brooker, Screen Burn

Vladimir Nabokov
“Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

María Kodama
“If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life.”
Maria Kodama

6763 Vladimir Nabokov — 126 members — last activity Sep 04, 2018 08:12AM
For all Nabokovians.
52068 Anna Karenina — 11 members — last activity Jun 11, 2012 03:45PM
A group for the lovers and haters of Tolstoy, and his ineffable novel.
50664 Reddit SF Book Club — 179 members — last activity Jan 09, 2015 09:47AM
A bookclub set up to discuss books about ideas. Please feel free to visit the Reddit SF Bookclub to open a discussion or post links pertaining to the ...more
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