"Well, we talked like that for awhile and then I said to him, I said, ‘You have the advantage on me. You know my name and I don’t know yours.’ And, and right back at me he said, ‘What name do you like?’ Well, I didn’t even have to think twice about that. Harvey’s always been my favorite name. So I said to him, I said, ‘Harvey.’ And, uh, this is the interesting thing about the whole thing: He said, ‘What a coincidence. My name happens to be Harvey.’"
— Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, “In this world, Elwood, you must be” - she always called me Elwood - “In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
— Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey
"I think the world and all of Ed, but he was spiffed."
— Eldwood P. Dowd, Harvey
"All beauty reveals itself to persistent analysis."
— Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
"When a man’s tipsy (that’s one extreme, you know), he sees one thing as two. But, when he’s extremely sober (that’s the other extreme), he sees two things as one. It’s equally inconvenient, whichever happens."
— Professor, Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll
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— Owly, Owly by Andy Runton
"
Krazy: “Why is Lenguage, Ignatz?”
Ignatz: “Language is that we may understand one another.”
Krazy: ”Can you unda-stend a Finn, or a Leplender, or a Oshkosher, huh?”
Ignatz: “No,”
Krazy: “Can a Finn, or a Leplender, or a Oshkosher unda-stend you?”
Ignatz: “No,”
Krazy: “Then I would say lenguage is that that we may mis-unda-stend each udda.”
"
— Krazy Kat Jan. 06, 1918, by George Herriman (via sans everything)
"Authenticity can only be one thing, but inauthenticity can be many things."
— Girl, Cat and Girl by Dorothy
"For illusion is not the opposite of reality, but another more subtle reality which enwraps the former kind in the sign of its disappearance."
— Jean Baudrillard, Photographies
"My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues."
— Sand and Foam, Kahlil Gibran
