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One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense. ↗

— Peter Cameron

#perspective #sense #nonsense

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#good #nonsense

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense. ↗

— Norton Juster

#nonsense

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#talking-to-yourself #nonsense

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#nonsense

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#metaphysics #nonsense #questioning-mind #questions #theology

Male or female, if my name were either Don or Dawn, I’d be up at sunrise to celebrate the glory that is me.
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— Jarod Kintz

#celebration #dawn #don #female #glory

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#self-image #sense-of-self #stories #storytelling #story

I give boring people something to discuss over corn. ↗

— Aimee Bender

#sensationalism #gossip

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#conformity #future #history #mainstream #new-orleans