"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."

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Source : Horace Walpole (1929). “The castle of Otranto”

Horace Walpole

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.”
“If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!”
“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct”
“I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.”
“To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.”
“Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.”
“I'm trying mostly to ask questions. And not just trying to stake out a position on something, but also trying to define the stuff we agree on. I'm having battles with comment posters trying to insert a little sense of order so it's not just a long pissing match between the edges, which is what I think a lot of the blogosphere is tending to do.”

Source : Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.
“To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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