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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Category: Humor

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
  • 2. Music has always been my protection against the world from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
  • 3. The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

2 Amazing

  • 1. This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.
  • 2. I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.
  • 3. It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

3 Anger

  • 1. But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
  • 2. Anger may repast with thee for an hour but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred the continuance of hatred turns malice.
  • 3. Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 2. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 3. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
  • 2. After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture not only in advanced technology allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
  • 3. We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
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