In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. – Arthur Koestler
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. – Arthur Koestler
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Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which – Arthur Koestler
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. – Arthur Koestler
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-tabl
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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