"The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest."

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Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Robert Grudin

#Life Quotes #Communication Quotes #Expression Quotes

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
“Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.”
“There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence, one-man-one-vote. But is equality realistic? If it is not, to insist on equality must lead to regression.”
“Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.”
“In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim upfront that each of the stories was based on my life experience. I think my reasoning goes back to what I was saying earlier, about wanting the book to be "more than a book," that I wanted the reader to feel a little unsettled about what they were reading: there's a core of factual truth here.”
“I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.”
“I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.”
“If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.”

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