Amusement Quote by Emo Philips

“I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.”

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Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd seen many things in his eyes in the time that I'd known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason…

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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play…

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Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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