TuesdayMay 05, 2026
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The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alternative?
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Thats what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know thats the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
Even memory is not necesary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knots tied in a mighty public way.
The dead dont stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth ... and the ambitions they had ... and the things they suffered ... and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth thats the way I put it weaned away.
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while its on your plate thats my philosophy.
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
It's when you are safe at home that you're having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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