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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. E. M. Forster
Richard Lewis quote: "I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind..."
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. Richard Lewis
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Expect nothing. Live frugally. On surprise. become a stranger. To need of pity. Or, if compassion be freely. Given out. Take only enough. Stop short of urge to plead. Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger. Than your own small heart. Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment. With caress unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka. For your soul. Discover the reason why. So tiny human midget. Exists at all. So scared unwise. But expect nothing. Live frugally. On surprise. Alice Walker
Naguib Mahfouz quote: "Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and..."
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. Naguib Mahfouz
Eva Gabor quote: "After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated..."
After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress? Eva Gabor
Louis de Bernieres quote: "Women only nag when they feel unappreciated."
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. Louis de Bernieres
Neil Gaiman quote: "Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die,..."
Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross. Neil Gaiman
Pete Conrad quote: "I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing."
I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing. Pete Conrad
Lyndon B. Johnson quote: "They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that..."
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. Lyndon B. Johnson
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's. Johan Huizinga
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Faith never makes a confession."
Faith never makes a confession. Henry David Thoreau
I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions Carrie Fisher
In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though time were not sequential in nature but took place without a beginning or an end, like a flash of green light rippling outward from the center of creation, not unlike a dream inside the mind of God. James Lee Burke
Pitbull quote: "Music to me is something I did as a hobby."
Music to me is something I did as a hobby. Pitbull