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On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.


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LARRY WALL Most jokes state a bitter truth.
LARRY GELBART My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the co...
LARRY PAGE I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend w...
LARRY FLYNT I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
LARRY WILMORE Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
LARRY WILMORE The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the c...
LARRY WILMORE You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you d...
LARRY WILMORE I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
LARRY WILMORE I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh ev...
LARRY WILMORE My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm w...
LARRY WILMORE I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
LARRY WILMORE People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
LARRY WILMORE There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies th...
LARRY WILMORE If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that ...
LARRY WILMORE When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing i...
LARRY WILMORE I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
LARRY WILMORE I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and ...
LARRY WILMORE When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
LARRY WILMORE The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. An...
LARRY WILMORE The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
LARRY WILMORE Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compa...
LARRY WILMORE Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
LARRY WILMORE I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in conten...
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