"Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness."

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Source : Martin Grotjahn (1966). “Beyond laughter: humor and the subconscious”

Martin Grotjahn

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“And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.”
“Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!”
“Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.”
“I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal system is manipulated to create seed monopolies. Seed laws that require uniformity - which criminalize diversity and the use of open-pollinated seeds - are fascist in nature. Suing farmers after contaminating their crops is another aspect of this fascism. Pseudo-hygiene laws that criminalize local, artisanal food are food fascism. And attacks on scientists and the silencing of independent research are examples of knowledge fascism.”
“I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.”
“If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.”
“Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.”
“Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.”

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