"I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure."

-- Leila Josefowicz

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“I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”
“With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.”
“I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.”
“The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.”
“I challenge anyone to tell me that there isnâ€™t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldnâ€™t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.”
“But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than touristsâ€”seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”
“No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.”

Source : "Later Mughals : Volume II : 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, "Ruqat-i-Alamgiri", 1922.

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