"Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?"

-- Neil Postman

#Laughter Quotes #Sea Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Love is the only duty that we know ...”
“Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.”
“Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.”
“Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.”

Source : Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”
“You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.”
“Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?”
“Dreams last so long, even after you're gone”
“Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?”

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