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#absurdity

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I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.


Jason Bateman


#audience #because #comedy #enjoy #everyman

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.


Christopher Hitchens


#conundrums #desire #groundhog-day #life #money

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.


Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


#belief #life #life

Katie cleared her throat again. Then she looked into the window at her gums. She said, "To change the subject, do you think I could tell if I had gingivitis?


M.T. Anderson


#gingivitis #humor #change

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.


Karl Lagerfeld


#absurdity #anti-absurdity #art #bi #bipolar

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#life #nothingness #life

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.


Julio Cortázar


#belief #life #life

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.


George Orwell


#mystical #truth #words #mysticism

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.


Albert Camus


#any #corner #face #feeling #man

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.


John Cusack


#correct #criticism #get #going #into






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