"Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when itâ€™s dark"

-- Isaac Bashevis Singer

#Dark Quotes #Night Quotes #Mercy Quotes

“It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.”
“I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.”
“Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.”
“We haven't any and you're too young.”
“He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.”
“Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. It was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. Pat Paulsen was a master of comedy too. The Smothers Brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. We had a couple of our albums, including the Purple Onion album, translated in script form. It didn't work at all. It is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the Smothers Brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.”
“Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.”
“Learning is a process not an event.”

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