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quotes by topic Silly

" The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death , War , Literature , Intellect , Emotions , Emotion , Silly

" The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death , War , Literature , Intellect , Emotions , Emotion , Silly

" If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be. "

Kevin J. Anderson

Death , Time , Books , Successful , Silly

" If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

People , Nothing , Silly

" Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen. "

Men , Theory , Chance , Silly

" Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools. "

Taylor Caldwell

Silly

" If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly. "

Silly

" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "

Wallace Stevens

Spring , Poor , Silly

" Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. "

Pope John Paul II

Stupidity , Silly , Catholic

" By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense. "

Silly , Writing , Mean

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