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John Ciardi

"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"

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"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"

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John Ciardi
"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."

Classroom

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John Ciardi
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

Moderation

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John Ciardi
"Poetry lies its way to the truth."

Poetry

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John Ciardi
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."

College

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John Ciardi
"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."

Character

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John Ciardi
"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."

Trust

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John Ciardi
"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."

Intelligence

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John Ciardi
"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

Idea

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John Ciardi
"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."

Men

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John Ciardi
"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."

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Aberjhani

"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

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Aberjhani

"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."

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Aberjhani

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Aberjhani

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

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Aberjhani

"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."

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Aberjhani

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Aberjhani

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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Aberjhani

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Aberjhani

"Remember these two things: play hard and have fun."

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Aberjhani

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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