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“It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch. For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch. For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity.”
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“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
“If we were stopped and questioned, I always smiled at the officers, and they always smiled back. In my heart, I was seeing them dead. But on my face, I was an open invitation. If you are only a girl, this is how you destroy your enemies.”
― In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
― In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
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