Quotes for Sunday

The only wayto entertain some folks is to listen to them. - Kin Hubbard [1]

It's a dangerous business going out your front door. - JRR Tolkien [2]

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning. - Marlo Thomas [3]



[1] Eulogy by Will Rogers, published 27 December 1930: "Kin Hubbard is dead. To us folks that attempt to write a little humor his death is just like Edison's would be to the world of invention. No man in our generation was within a mile of him, and I am so glad that I didn't wait for him to go to send flowers. I have said it from the stage and in print for twenty years. Just think -- only two lines a day, yet he expressed more original philosophy in 'em than all the rest of the paper combined. What a kick Twain and all that gang will get out of Kin.


[2] Fantasy authors such as William Morris, Robert E. Howard and E. R. Eddison preceded Tolkien, but the enduring influence of his works have led to him being popularly identified as the "father of modern fantasy literature." In any case, Tolkien has had an indisputable and lasting effect on later works, as well as the genre as a whole. On the whole, he is a better writer than most of the puffed up academics and lit school grads. that scoff at him.


[3] Marlo Thomas is the recipient of four Emmy Awards (for her show That Girl). She has been married to talk show host Phil Donahue since 1980. The couple lives in New York City, but Thomas travels to Los Angeles for work or to receive donations to her charity, Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. Producer David Geffen contributed $1,000,000 by simply writing Thomas a check when she was on location in L.A. filming Friends some years ago.

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