"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

-- Samuel Johnson

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“I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. Ocotber 2004.
“One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasnâ€™t that insulting? Shouldnâ€™t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?”
“Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.”
“It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.”
“For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.”
“The weaker sex, to piety more prone.”

Source : William Alexander, “Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre”
“My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!”
“Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.”

Source : "Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy". Book by Simon Blackburn, 1999.

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