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Horace Walpole quote: "Life is a comedy to those who think, and tragedy to those who..."

Life is a comedy to those who think, and tragedy to those who feel.

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I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed. Christopher Isherwood
Mitch Albom quote: "The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone."
The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone. Mitch Albom
Patrick Stewart quote: "Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready..."
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment. Patrick Stewart
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of... Thomas Paine
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work. Matt Groening
Lewis Carroll quote: "For the snark was a boojum, you see."
For the snark was a boojum, you see. Lewis Carroll
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989) Edward Abbey
Naomi Judd quote: "We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around."
We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around. Naomi Judd
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. Christopher Lasch
Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift. Janis Karpinski
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in..."
A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill. Barbara Kingsolver
If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell. Robert Stone
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "To forget oneself is to be happy."
To forget oneself is to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson