199 Quotes About Nonsense
- Author Salman Rushdie
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Maybe, according to my insula, this is the way things are these days in America: that for some of us, the world stopped making sense. Anything can happen. Here can be there, then can be now, up can be down, truth can be lies. Everything's slip-sliding around and there's nothing to hold on to. The whole thing has come apart at the seams.
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- Author Anne Sexton
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I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.
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- Author T.F. Hodge
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It's futile to point the finger of condemnation and say, "Men... this" or "Women... that". Truth is, we are all guilty and innocent of many of life's trials.
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- Author Nick Harkaway
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Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?" Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely's that nonsense which can be misheard is a very good way to lie without getting caught. People just insert whatever they think you must be doing, and - having lied to themselves on your behalf - are disinclined to check up on you.
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- Author Nancy Mitford
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...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever Jassy said, in a certain tone of voice, pointing her finger with a certain look, "Fancy?" I think they hardly knew why, themselves.
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- Author Erik Pevernagie
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If we think the world has no sense, we are still free to enjoy all the imaginable nonsense. (“Drunken ship »)
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- Author Eric Dodson Robinson
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a lot of what we know isn't very relevant to our being
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- Author Michelle M. Pillow
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If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I’m thinking 12 tiers.
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- Author Marshall Ramsay
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I had a dream about you last night... we tried to joke but neither could make any sense. We realized that puns are present in every language, though not shared by any of them.
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