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Enid Blyton
“Let's enjoy our misery before we say it's fun.”
Enid Blyton, The River of Adventure
tags: misery

Isaac Bashevis Singer
“When people come together — let's say they come to a little party or something — you always hear them discuss character. They will say this one has a bad character, this one has a good character, this one Is a fool, this one is a miser. Gossip makes the conversation. They all analyze character. It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.

The writers who don't discuss character but problems —social problems or any problems — take away from literature its very essence. They stop being entertaining. We, for some reason, always love to discuss and discover character. This is because each character is different, and human character is the greatest of puzzles.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Keith Johnstone
“It was largely my interest in art that had destroyed any life in the world around me. I'd learned perspective, and about balance, and composition. It was as if I'd learned to redesign everything, to reshape it so I saw what OUGHT to be there, which of course is much inferior to what IS there. The dullness was not an inevitable consequence of age, but of education.”
Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

“We're told that wild animals don't murder one another, only people do. In the animal kingdom there is supposedly an "I won't kill you if you don't kill me" arrangement between members of the same species. Aggression is all bluff and ritual, for nobody wants to get seriously hurt. I was thinking about a wild dog named Wodan tonight. Maybe the Falcon males hadn't meant to kill him. But I just saw murder today for sure. Animals kill their own kind, and they do it on purpose.”
George Frame, Swift and Enduring: 2

James Blish
“Maybe God is on the side of the werewolves.”
James Blish, Get Out Of My Sky

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