"Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious."

-- Malcolm Muggeridge

#Serious Quotes

“When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.”
“Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.”
“My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.”

Source : "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.
“Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.”
“What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.”
“An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way”
“Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.”
“But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.”

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