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Seriousness Quotes (page 4)

With four-to-one odds against us, our ability to leave the encounter without serious damage becomes seriously impaired." "Spock," McCoy said gently, "your bedside manner is flawless. You mean, we're all going to be blown to hell." Spock hesitated, then nodded. Diane Duane
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is..."
Almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. Rainer Maria Rilke
They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears. Toni Morrison
Is there a fungus that speaks to you? I'm serious. People hear things. They hear God."He meant it. He was serious. He wanted to mean it, to hear anything the man might say, the wholeshapeless narrative of his unraveling. Don DeLillo
Aleister Crowley quote: "One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take..."
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. Aleister Crowley
I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously. William Golding
J. M. Coetzee quote: "Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious..."
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences. J. M. Coetzee
it's as if I'm afraid to spoil the charm of what has only just passed by a serious book or some serious occupation. As if this ugly dream and all the impressions it left behind are so dear to me that I'm even afraid to touch it with something new, lest it vanish in smoke! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adrienne Rich quote: "The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't..."
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. Adrienne Rich
This is important stuff, so it's crucial not to get too serious, to realize that this is all fun and games. The attitude 'business is serious, it's not fun and games' leads to financial failure, and I won't tolerate it in my company. Martha Beck
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other. Jane Austen
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures. Gustave Flaubert
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed. C. S. Lewis
All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.... Robertson Davies
Oscar Wilde quote: "You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the..."
You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality Oscar Wilde

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