"We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."

-- Lionel Trilling

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“A heavenly society is a harmony of many.”
“Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.”
“Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.”
“Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.”
“There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”
“I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.”

Source : "'Collateral Beauty' Film Writer: Will Smith Was Best Actor for Dramatic Leading Role". Interview with Jeannie Law, www.christianpost.com. December 23, 2016.
“Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.”

Source : "Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange" compiled by David Barber, 1987.
“It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.”

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