"The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?"

-- Angela Carter

#Laughing Quotes #May Quotes #Mirth Quotes

“I been blessed with an opportunity, I'm extremely appreciative of it, but if I'm not enjoying it then I messed up, real bad.”

Source : Source: www.parlemag.com
“My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.”
“It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.”
“Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.”
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.”

Source : Lily King (2014). “Euphoria”, p.62, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.”
“Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.”

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