Mel Gussow famous quotes

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.
-- Mel Gussow

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More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his portrait of the poet and scholar A. E. Housman) -- with characters from life and literature. But one cannot always tell the difference between those who are real and those who are imaginary.
-- Mel Gussow

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Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions.
-- Mel Gussow

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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.