Quote of the day

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“All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”—Jack Kerouac

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“There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language.”–Walter Benjamin

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“But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.”
― George Carlin, Last Words

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“I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.”- ozamu dazai

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[Syne]

Dorothy Parker, born Dorothy Rothschild to a Jewish father, lived with complex, often internalized, anti-semitism, frequently distancing herself from her heritage and using her maiden name only until she could marry.
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Parker, born to a Jewish father and Protestant mother, often sought to downplay her Jewish background, sometimes employing internalized anti-Semitic tropes in her humor.
- Google AI

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“The existence of other people is essentially awkward.”
― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

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“Being that can be understood is language.”
–Hans-Georg Gadamer
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