"Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends."

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Source : Idiot's Delight act 2, sc. 2 (1936)

Robert E. Sherwood

#Mean Quotes #Games Quotes #Delight Quotes

“I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.”
“I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.”
“Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity.”
“Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.”

Source : "Chuck Berry: Music legend given rock 'n' roll sendoff", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2017.
“I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.”
“It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.”
“What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.”

Source : "Song: "What's Made Milwaukee Famous"". May 1968.
“I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.”

Source : "Karen O’s Psycho Opera Will Be A ‘Psychedelic Ride Laced With Catharsis’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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