"Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it."

-- John Gould

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“Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1987). “Joanna's Husband and David's Wife”, Dell Publishing Company
“Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.”
“One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'”
“If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. ... If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. ... If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. ... If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.”
“Make lots of money. Enjoy the work. Operate within the law. Choose any two of three”
“There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever”

Source : "The Mists of Avalon". Book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1983.
“I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.”
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

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