Random funny quotes
Fragments: a providential resource for writers who don't know how to put together an entire book.
classic aphorism by Pitigrilli
Added by Simona Enache
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Certain people use the fair winds just to walk against the stream.
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
Added by Dan Costinaş
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Rhyme XXIII
For a glance, a world;
for a smile, a paradise;
for a kiss... I don't know
what I would give you for a kiss.
poem by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer from Rhymes (Rimas) (1871), translated by Dan Costinaş
Added by Dan Costinaş
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the worst for echo
is always repeating the
same stupidities
haiku by Mario Benedetti from Haikus' Corner (Rincón de Haikus) (1999), translated by Dan Costinaş
Added by Dan Costinaş
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My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.
quote by Terri Guillemets
Added by Dan Costinaş
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Nothing has happened in Macondo, nothing has ever happened, and nothing ever will happen. This is a happy town.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), translated by Gregory Rabassa
Added by Dan Costinaş
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Cricket chirping
Frosty night
A mat of cold and white —
It holds a folded robe
But must I sleep alone?
tanka by Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Added by Dan Costinaş
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The pessimism is a rational tendency in an irrational world.
aphorism by George Budoi from Aphorisms (2013), translated by Dan Costinaş
Added by Dan Costinaş
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When we all remain homeless, the street will be ours.
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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There once was a lady of Guam
Who said, "Now the sea is so calm,
I'll swim out, for a lark."
But she met a large shark.
Let us now sing the Ninetieth Psalm!
limerick by Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense (1846)
Added by Dan Costinaş
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