Absurd Quotes
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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
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I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.
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First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
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We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.
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I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.
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A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
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Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
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To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.
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What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.
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To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.
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We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.
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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
