"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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Sir, if you were my husband I would put poison in your tea.
Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it.
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“I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
-Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
― Victor Borge
“I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story — I will. I will speak and share and fuck and love and I will never apologize to the frightened millions who resent that they never had it in them to do it.”
—Amy Schumer
Amy, if you try and succeed at not hurting anyone, I'm cool with that.
Amy sounds tremendously smug and self-absorbed to me.
It's true that she determines for herself how she imagines herself.
And everyone else determines for themselves what they think of her.
If she doesn't like what other people think of her, shrieking out shrill adolescent defiance probably isn't the best response.
Especially when she makes her living as an entertainer, which means that she's made herself dependent on what other people think.
I say more power to her. If self-righteous little prudes are offended by her brash and honest sort of comedy, they don't have to listen to her. They can stay home and watch the 700 Club.