"Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people."

-- Red Skelton

#Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes #People Quotes

“There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.”
“Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.”
“There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.”
“The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.”
“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.”

Source : Spider Robinson (1996). “Deathkiller”, Baen Books
“Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.”
“It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms . . .”

Source : Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann
“I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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