"When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh."

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Source : Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

Todd Solondz

#Happiness Quotes #Laughter Quotes #People Quotes

“It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing”
“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”
“The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.”
“If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.”
“What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.”

Source : Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.12, Macmillan
“I've always been about less government.”
“How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?”

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