"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Buster Keaton

#Long Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“I dont think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.”
“I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.”
“Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.”

Source : "Gator A-Go-Go: A Novel". Book by Tim Dorsey, March 9, 2010.
“The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.”

Source : Susan Stewart (1984). “On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection”, p.38, Duke University Press
“I was born in Okinawa, but on a U.S. Army base. And my father is Japanese-American which means that he is second generation, but my mom was born in the Philippines and raised in Okinawa. So, how do you know where you are generationally from? I can claim all three legitimately, but I like to say that I am third generation American.”
“Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.”

Source : Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.4, Courier Corporation
“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project”
“Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.”

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