"Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it."

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Stephen Leacock

#Voice Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Pathos Quotes

“Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.”
“It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.”
“I should have had the pickle.”
“Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.”
“I knew that this job would be too much for me.”
“Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver”

Source : Robert Wright (1994). “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life”, Pantheon
“He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid warrior, wasn't he? His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Root beer! He yanked out the can shaking it with all his might. "Attack! Attack!" he yelled.”
“Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?”

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