#absurd

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Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.


Groucho Marx


#state

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.


John Cleese


#christmas

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.


Woody Allen


#paris

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.


Albert Camus


#myth

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.


George Orwell


#mystical #truth #words #mysticism

Love knows no boundaries. I wish I would have known that before I hired a cartographer to map out my romantic territory. 



Jarod Kintz


#bizarre #boundaries #cartographer #funny #humor

The silence protrudes like an engorged stomach, while I ponder the thought of trying to sit on my own lap.


Jarod Kintz


#funny #humor #ponder #surreal #thought

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.


Gary Shteyngart


#dreams

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.


Jeff Tweedy


#certain #certain point #failure #get #i

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.


Jeff Tweedy


#anyone #audience #becomes #chooses #collaborator