A Quote by Mark Twain

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

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Leo Tolstoy

But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.

William Osler

Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.

Mac Barnett

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

Greg Behrendt

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.