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Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.
“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.”
― A Gun for Sale
― A Gun for Sale
“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."
[Writer’s Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer’s Digest, February 1976)]”
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[Writer’s Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer’s Digest, February 1976)]”
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“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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