"Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to."

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Source : Arthur Adamov (1962). “Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse”

Arthur Adamov

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“Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.”
“Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.”
“The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.”
“You have to know the past to understand the present.”

Source : Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.62, Ballantine Books
“It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense.”
“What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!”
“Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.”
“I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.”

Source : Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

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