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“If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.”
Bill Bryson

Oscar Levant
“A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.”
Oscar Levant
tags: humor, pun

Liam O'Flaherty
“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones. ”
Liam O'Flaherty

James S.A. Corey
“Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?”
James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

Jules Verne
“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Creation on every hand. It is the physical embodiment of a supernatural existence... For the sea is itself nothing but love and emotion. It is the Living Infinite, as one of your poets has said. Nature manifests herself in it, with her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal. The ocean is the vast reservoir of Nature.”
Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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