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American Genius: A Comedy QUOTES

American Genius: A Comedy QUOTES

1 " The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a hunt for it. If I’m not hungry, I might seek other forms of happiness, or pleasure, which is part of my American birthright, though the most misconceived notion of them or the most difficult to realize; I can pursue several means and ways to be happy, if I am able to forget what makes me habitually sad. "

― Lynne Tillman , American Genius: A Comedy

2 " I like to believe I enjoy surprises, that I'm someone to whom an eruption of the unusual should be usual, or who branches out to advance the implausible. I might fly a jet, become a man, walk backward without a care, threaten like a stalker, speak freely at all times, swim the Atlantic on a greasy back, be silent for months like a Carthusian ... "

― Lynne Tillman , American Genius: A Comedy

3 " I once heard that the French don't prosecute people who commit crimes of passion twenty minutes after waking. "

― Lynne Tillman , American Genius: A Comedy