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Molly Simpson • 2 cards
The desperate Unabomber-esque screeds that Chuck Lorre slaps on the end of his shows.
Tom Scharpling • It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!
He told us that one reason he and his friends wanted to start the commune and learn to “live off the land” in a simple way was that “we want to be the last people on earth.” Vonnegut said, “Isn’t that kind of a stuck-up kind of thing to want to be?” In the way he spoke and the way he wrote, Vonnegut was always coming up with the plain-spoken words
... See moreDan Wakefield • If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
That’s the great thing about working in comedy. If the audience doesn’t laugh, you know you’ve got it wrong.
John Cleese • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
―Winston Churchill
Johnny Carson and the Fantasy of America
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Round and round this goes, with both sides claiming to occupy the spiritual center of the same philosophy, never considering the possibility that the (potentially real) value of their viewpoint hinges on the prospect that patriotism is not absurd and democracy is not simply the system some wig-wearing eighteenth-century freedom junkies happened to
... See moreChuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
A republic, if you can keep it