"Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations."

-- Red Skelton

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“There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.”
“Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.”

Source : 1646 'Love's Offence'.
“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
“For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.”
“I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned as the Lord intended us to function, if we had paid our tithes and our offerings as the Lord intended us to pay them, we might have gone on without one dollar from our federal government. And has it ever occurred to you what a mighty influence we should have exercised for good and for respect and for all of the virtues that we have been taught, and that God has commanded us to exercise and cultivate and practice, if we had just followed along what he has asked us to do?”
“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyâ€™re only animals.”
“When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.”
“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2013). “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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