"I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?"

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Edward St Aubyn

#Laughter Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Horror Quotes

“No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.”
“And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked up at me with her tear-stained eyes and said, 'This is how you teach children, by making them cry.' And it was such a clenching reminder - she won not only the argument, but she won life with that statement. I just burst out laughing, and I think they were so surprised that I burst out laughing, that they did too.”
“No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.”
“I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.”
“I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!”
“I think that the whole idea of â€˜no regretsâ€™ was always a silly idea to me, because of course I regret all the places I went wrong, but thatâ€™s what creating anything, and being human, is all about. Of course if I could go back and knew what I know now, I absolutely would do it differently, Iâ€™d do it the right way, but part of being human is that we canâ€™t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again, weâ€™ll do it the right way.”
“Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.”

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