"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Happiness Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Humor Quotes

“One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press
“The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.”
“After an hour your power goes sour.”
“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”
“In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.”
“I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.”
“I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.”
“I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.”

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