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T. S. Eliot quote: "Humor is also a way of saying something serious."
Humor is also a way of saying something serious. T. S. Eliot
Nick Hornby quote: "It takes a child to say the unsayable."
It takes a child to say the unsayable. Nick Hornby
Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act. Michel Foucault
Ernest Hemingway quote: "And this,' he was saying aloud. 'And this. And this."
And this,' he was saying aloud. 'And this. And this. Ernest Hemingway
…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that. Richard Linklater
He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later. Boris Pasternak
Nikki Giovanni quote: "daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told..."
daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i’m gonna beat out my own rhythm Nikki Giovanni
Brian Tracy quote: "it's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for..."
it's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying , "I am responsible Brian Tracy
I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather. Joyce Carol Oates
If people ask me, I always tell them:"Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say."If people ask me, I always answer,"Quite well, thank you, how are you today?"I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me. Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't A. A. Milne
You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows. Shel Silverstein
Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not. Alain de Botton
Anthony Burgess quote: "Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh..."
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football Anthony Burgess
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction). Richard Dawkins
Michael Jackson quote: "They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step,..."
They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another. Michael Jackson

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