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" Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. "
Reality
Bad
Good
" Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. "
God
Great
Life
" Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. "
Men
Exit
Graceful
" He was not only a bore; he bored for England. "
Bore
Bored
England
" History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. "
Time
People
History
" I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. "
Live
Die
Say
" It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. "
Laughter
Life
Laugh
" My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. "
Strength
Opinion
Mind
" Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. "
Never Forget
Dead
Fish
" One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. "
Up
Things
Old Age
" One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. "
Truth Is
God
Truth
" People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to. "
Want
Because
Believe
" Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. "
Substitute
Sex
Religion
" Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. "
Possible
Only
Religion
" St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. "
World
Night
Like
" Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. "
Surely
Glory
Journalism
" The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. "
American
Trying
Youth
" There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. "
Thing
Darkness
See
" The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. "
Heaven
See
Trouble
" This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life. "
Own
Think
Pain
" Travel, of course, narrows the mind. "
Mind
Travel
Course
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