"Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit."

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Source : Alice Meynell (1925). “Essays”

Alice Meynell

#Art Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.”
“I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.”

Source : "Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'" by Craig S. Smith, www.nytimes.com. January 07, 2006.
“Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.”
“Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.”
“Why are numbers beautiful? Itâ€™s like asking why is Beethovenâ€™s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you donâ€™t see why, someone canâ€™t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they arenâ€™t beautiful, nothing is.”
“I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.”
“Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within you don't already know. When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. If you haven't reached that stage yet, the practice of body awareness will bring about the deepening that is necessary.”
“The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.”

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