Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson and Other Tales
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four....
Tag: humor
Joseph Heller
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them....
Janet Evanovich, Seven Up
Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that’s so insulting. That’s like saying I’m not smart enough to shoot you in the head.” Eddie DeChooch...
Lauren Myracle, ttfn
You should eat a waffle! You can’t be sad if you eat a waffle!...
Anne Lamott
You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do....
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered....
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven’t Read- Books You Needn’t Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written- Books That If...
E. Nesbit, The Magic World
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over....
Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on....
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar....
