“Sometimes in your everyday life, you should say the right thing. But the wrong thing is funnier.”
Ed Byrne (1972) Irish comedian
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“The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy…. The magic of everyday things.”
— Joanne Harris, book Blackberry Wine
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