Josie Long quotes

“Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path and - bang! - the joke comes out of nowhere.”
-- Josie Long

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

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“'What's a couple?' I asked my mum. She said, 'Two or three'. Which probably explains why her marriage collapsed”
-- Josie Long

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“I thought if I could make people laugh about how awkward I am, it'd make me less awkward. But you also realise how fun it is to make people laugh.”
-- Josie Long

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

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“The trouble with stand-up is it sort of is you and yet it isn't you and it's incredibly hard not to take everything said about you personally. I would never Google my own name; I don't want to hear people being mean about me.”
-- Josie Long

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“One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.”

“I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.”

“Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.”

“One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.”

“Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.”

“the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.”

“The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.”

“There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.”

Source : Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”

“My friends always joke that I run on batteries.”