I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back. - Steven Wright

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An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

Steven Wright

I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.

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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring. . . 'How to Build a Boat. '

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If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat

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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

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For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. . . I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

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Hirokazu Koreeda

But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.

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Albert Camus

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

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H. L. Mencken

I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.

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Max Planck

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

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Daniel Handler

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.

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