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Letter "A" » amusing
«Life's more amusing than we thought.»
«I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.»
«I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing.»
«Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity»
«I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
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amusing, diaries, diary, downcast, hiding, housewives, humorous, Interesting Times, later on, made-up, privation, privations, romantic, sole
«Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history»
«Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.»
«I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.»
«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)
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«I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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