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Iris Murdoch
: Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
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Oscar Wilde :
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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Emile Cioran :
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
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Barbara Hershey :
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I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
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Brendan Gill :
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
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Iris Murdoch:
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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
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A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fa?ade of his appearance.
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