"The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths."

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Source : V.S. Pritchett (2011). “In My Good Books”, p.42, A&C Black

V. S. Pritchett

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“A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.”
“There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.”
“A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.”
“My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.”
“The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
“I dont have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu.”

Source : "Meet the Sexiest New Woman on TV". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 30, 2014.
“People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And when they commit the slightest mistake, they should quit their office on moral grounds without waiting to be proved guilty. Moral values must take centre stage in all walks of life.”
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”

Source : "Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.

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