"Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way."

-- Margaret Halsey

#Humorous Quotes #Twenties Quotes #Four Quotes

“I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.”

Source : Elizabeth Jane Howard (2012). “Getting It Right”, p.240, Pan Macmillan
“It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.”
“Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.”
“My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.”
“From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.”
“All instruments sound fantastic in a church.”

Source : "Colin Meloy Interview Transcript". Interview with Luke Baumgarten, www.inlander.com. October 20, 2005.
“The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajÃ±Ã¢ or wisdom; and its validity depends not on any dramatic ecstatic visions but it belongs to man's (...) natural reason unspoilt by theologies of exclusiveness.”

Source : "Ramakrishna Mission" by Ram Swarup, (p.13), 1986.

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