- Youngest: Daddy, how many people did Darth Vader kill?
- Parent: Well, he killed lots of people. He murdered all the Jedis.
- Youngest: And how many people did Luke kill?
- Parent: Not very many I think. Mostly monsters and some stormtroopers as far as I remember.
- Eldest: Hang on, didn’t Luke destroy the Death Star?
- Parent: Yes, yes he did.
- Eldest: So he actually killed LOADS of people, lots more than Darth Vader did.
- Parent: You’ve got a point there.
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The Art of Fiction No. 42
“I never go out to look for a story. I take notes, but never like a reporter. My stories are all based upon things that have come to me in life without my going out to look for them.”
Pablo Picasso: Portrait of Igor Stravinsky, May 24, 1920 – pen
In 1917, Stravinsky met the great artist Pablo Picasso in Italy. While visiting him, Picasso drew a picture of Stravinsky. Igor packed it in his luggage to bring back to Switzerland.
When the customs officer inspected the suitcase, he thought the portrait was a spy plan. Their conversation went like this:
“What is this sketch?”
“My portrait drawn by Picasso.”
“Nonsense. It must be a plan.”
“Yes – the plan of my face.”
via cmuse
“If you can put five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not, a door.”
On Pokemon
“I’m not interested in trading card games, and besides you have to have lots of rubber bands.”
“On Keeping a Notebook,”
“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
Walking through the Graveyard
- Second Eldest: Who died?
- Eldest: Lot’s of people, by the looks of it.
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Donkeys on a Burger King receipt
Conversation of the Weekend
- 5 year old A: “Daddy, why didn’t people see dinosaurs?”
- Grown-Up: “Well, they died a very long time ago.”
- 5 year old A: “Before people?”
- Grown-Up: “A long time before there were people.”
- 5 year old A: “Oh”
- 5 year old B: “Yes, they died on the cross.”
- Grown-Up: “……..ermm…no, I think that might’ve been Jesus”
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