#absurd

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#family #glass-castle #jeannette-walls #family

Which half do you want me to cut in half, Mr. Halfofhalf?
 The name’s Onequarter. Johnny Onequarter. And don’t you forget it. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #funny-dialogue #surreal #funny

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#does #husband #many #me #romantic

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. ↗

— Tina Brown

#anchors #feel #keep #networks #reporting

O.K., then, all right, they would adopt a white-trash dog. Ha ha. They could name it Zeke, buy it a little corncob pipe and a straw hat. She imagined the puppy, having crapped on the rug, looking up at her, going, Cain’t hep it. But no. Had she come from a perfect place? Everything was transmutable. She imagined the puppy grown up, entertaining some friends, speaking to them in a British accent: My family of origin was, um, rather not, shall we say, of the most respectable... Ha ha, wow, the mind was amazing, always cranking out these— ↗

— George Saunders

#humor #puppy #family

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#absurd #advice #approach #end #foolish

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#aquatic #bizarre #creatures #fins #fish

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd. ↗

— Joel Coen

#approach #characters #conceiving #creations #even

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#absurdly #break #infinite #living #only