Amusement Quote by Robert Penn Warren

“Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.” quote by Robert Penn Warren — Download Open image

“Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.”

Robert Penn Warren

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If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

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“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t got anything to say to the child. All he wants is to have that child sit in a chair for a couple of hours and then go off to bed under the same roof. It’s not…

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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

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“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad of it. Between one point on the map and another point on the map, there was the being alone in the car in the rain. They say you are not you except in terms of relation…

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“No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what the law is like. It's like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. There ain't ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much…

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[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and…

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“Those were the ones which would turn loose their grip on the branch before long-- not in any breeze, the fibers would just relax, in the middle of the day maybe with the sunshine bright and the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you've been to the dentist or aches…

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“Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get…

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“He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the ground. This, he thought, was the moment when the dead must first feel truly alone. This was the moment when the dead, in loneliness, feel the first stirrings of the long penance of decay. This was the moment when the dead realize…

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I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

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The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

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The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall…

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Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous,…

Lord Chesterfield

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…

Karen Marie Moning

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

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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…

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I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through…

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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…

Henry David Thoreau

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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The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…

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I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with this thought in my head that I could collect enough songs to make an album out of it. I am attracted to non-dramatic moments in life. The idea of a coffee break is not something you'd…

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I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you fret over money?" he asked with amusement. "I was not even sure you knew what to do with it." I shrugged. "A women has needs." "Still." said Cole. "Gosh, Jaz, why didn't you say something to…

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