"Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat."

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Source : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 2002.

Peter Sellers

#Reality Quotes #Labels Quotes #Faces Quotes

“If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to have psychological advantage, he likes to be on the offense. He believes in what he calls truthful hyperbole.”
“If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively,”
“America didnâ€™t create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America,”
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

Source : Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”
“Iâ€™d rather sing a sad song than eat,”
“That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and bound by nothing except the injunction of the Church. Should the same renunciation not be possible if this injunction is replaced by the admonition finally to put an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to give the Almighty Creator beings such as He Himself created?”
“You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.”
“Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.”

Source : Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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