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funny humorous mind
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it. Charles Dickens
funny morning self
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
funny death witty
He would make a lovely corpse.
funny kings humorous
It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
funny people literature
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
funny christmas xmas
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
funny law people
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
funny marriage wedding
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton
funny age fifty
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
literary publishers secretly wrote
I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial. Tawni O'Dell
literary resisted saw time writer
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. Ellen Potter
literary looking novels parties people problem spend time york
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting. Anne Fadiman
literary quite scientific
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. Ian Mcewan
literary-genre mind tasks
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. Aberjhani
literary published terrible
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! Siri Hustvedt
literary reasons writers
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. Jeffrey Eugenides
literary work
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. Andrea Hirata
literary robust seem serious struck
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. Paul Theroux