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    If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?: Smart Quotes for Dumb Times

    By John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

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    John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have proven themselves to be masters at digging up obscure facts, abstruse information, and amusing anecdotes and presenting them effortlessly, somewhat slyly, with either great wit or at least a little bit of tongue in cheek. Their gifts are on full display in Quote Interesting, a lively, wonderfully enjoyable anthology of hundreds of quotes you probably have never heard before, arranged thematically from A to Z. From laugh-out-loud-funny bon mots to some real headscratchers, Lloyd and Mitchinson have gathered a universe of star-studded blurbs like:

    “The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.” —Victor Lewis Smith
    “When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.” —Henry James

    “I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” —Nancy Reagan

    “You know ‘that look’ women get when they want sex? Me neither.” —Steve Martin
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 4, 2009
    ISBN9780307460677
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    If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?: Smart Quotes for Dumb Times
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    John Lloyd

    John Lloyd is one of the most successful television comedy producers of all time, having been responsible for Not the Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder, QI and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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      In their opening to If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren’t There More Happy People, the authors write, “If [an]other fellow can [say] it better, let him. […] A good quotation is a keyhole view of a boundless universe…”And there are perhaps 4,000 such keyhole views, by ~1500 people from ancient philosophers to contemporary bloggers, in this quirky and entertaining collection of quotations. They’re organized by topic, each attributed to its author, and some (~10%) annotated with backstory about the quote’s context or the author’s intent. They’re also indexed by author, accompanied by dates of birth (and death where applicable), nationality, and occupation.I first approached the book as probably intended: by reading quotes within the topics of most interest to me (eg Books: “The covers of this book are too far apart” -- Ambrose Bierce; or Geometry: “A line is a dot that went for a walk” -- Paul Klee). Then I flipped through the index*, thrilled to be able to slice the contents according to the people who most interest me. However, those approaches leave too much good stuff to hit and miss -- and so now, although this is technically a reference work, I’m enjoying my way through the full collection, cover to cover.*the index is incorrectly page-referenced and unusable in my advance-reading copy; I trust this will be remedied before publication