#hum

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#much #really

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#answers #any #because #delve #essentially

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be. ↗

— Annette O'Toole

#being #best #christopher #christopher reeve #embodied

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#housework #human #opposed #possibility #self-actualization

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. ↗

— Ben Okri

#fundamental #hints #human #imperfection #perfection

I know that human beings are capable of anything. ↗

— Ben Okri

#beings #capable #human #human beings #i

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. ↗

— Ben Okri

#definition #description #fallen #fiction #human

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. ↗

— William Osler

#conducive #disease #humility #more #than