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«I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.»
Author: Elvis Costello (Musician, Singer) | Keywords: amused, amuses, disgusted, disgusts, used, used to
«The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.»
Author: Shirley MacLaine | About: Laughter | Keywords: amused, amuses, laugh at
«Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself»
Author: Charles Baudelaire (Poet) | Keywords: amuses, amusing, providing, talk about
«Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert (Novelist) | Keywords: ambitious, amuse, amuses, instruction
«Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | Keywords: amuses, applying, triumphantly
«Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: able, accuracy, amuses, bent, bents, child, direct, Directed By, discover, force, genius, harshness, In Training, minds, peculiar, The Bends, The Genius, to it, train
«There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.»
Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | Keywords: actual, amuses, amusing, awaken, density, equivalent, fiction, fiction writer, grasp, guise, offers, Real Genius, something else, The Works, unable, writers
«Be amusing, never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli (Novelist, Prime Minister) | Keywords: above all, amuses, amusing, stories, Telling Stories, tells a story, unkind, unkindest
«Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | Keywords: amuse, amuses, consequently, gained, in short, no Hell, praying
«The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: amuses, amusing, Art of, consists, cures, curing, disease, medicine, patient, patient of, the art
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