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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 think of as being an important part of your day, so these shorts were like little free zones in which we could just play around.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Coffee, Thinking

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Principles, May, Dignity

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• ... si una persona ha de ser poco convencional, debe ser divertida o es intolerable: porque, en la naturaleza del caso, no te garantiza nada más que diversión. No te garantiza ninguna de las pequeñas comodidades por las que la sociedad se ha asegurado de que, si tiene que ir a dormir, al menos dormirá en una silla cómoda.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sleep, Littles, Doe

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). "Modos y moral"

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• There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

  Lydia M. Child

  Theatre, Hours, Lost

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia M. Child, 1843.

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• I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Heart, Long

  E. B. White (1989). "Las cartas de E. B. White", Perennial

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• I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Life, Happiness, Reading

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• Uno podría pensar que, a mi edad, debería ver la vida con más seriedad. Después de todo, he tenido el privilegio de escuchar, de primera mano, a algunos de los pensadores más profundos de mi época, que estaban acosados por el pesimismo ante la situación en que se encontraba el mundo. Entonces, ¿por qué no puedo verlo más que con diversión?

  Anita Loos

  Funny, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.... Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.

  Frances Trollope

  Personas, Religión, Iglesia

  Frances Trollope (2013). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Todas las grandes diversiones son peligrosas para la vida cristiana; pero entre todas las que el mundo ha inventado no hay ninguna más temible que el teatro. Es una representación de las pasiones tan natural y tan delicada que las excita y hace nacer en nuestros corazones, y, sobre todo, la del amor.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Christian, Passion

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

  George Santayana

  World, Spirit, Wonderful

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• Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

  C. A. Bartol

  Character, Class, Play

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• La vida en sí misma es lo suficientemente corta, pero los médicos con su arte, saben para su diversión, cómo hacerla aún más corta.

  Petrarca

  Art, Physicians, Enough

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• Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

  Walter Scott

  Purpose, May, Acquaintance

  Sir Walter Scott (1841). “Novels of Ernest Theodore Hoffman. The omen. Hajji Baba in England. Tales of my landlord Thornton's Sporting tour. Two cookery books. Johnes' translation of Froissart. Miseries of human life. Carr's Caledonian sketches. Lady Suffolk's correspondence. Kirkton's Church history. Life and works of John Home. The Culloden papers. Pepys' Memoirs”, p.54

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• No soy de la opinión generalizada en este país [Inglaterra] de que el hombre vive sólo del griego y del latín; es decir, conociendo un gran número de palabras de dos lenguas muertas, que nadie vivo conoce a la perfección, y que no son de ninguna utilidad en el trato común de la vida. El conocimiento útil, en mi opinión, consiste en lenguas modernas, historia y geografía; se puede añadir algo de latín, en cumplimiento de la costumbre y para divertirse.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Country, Latin

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• Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Age, Busy

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• We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which we might not otherwise have thought of obtaining; but this would hardly perhaps in any instance be productive of any great practical utility, or calculated to rank higher than as a philosophical amusement.

  Ada Lovelace

  Philosophical, Law, Arbitrary

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• Aunque no participe en la alegría de un deporte más vehemente, siento un placer que no puedo conciliar con mis nociones abstractas de la ternura debida a las criaturas mudas en la tranquila crueldad de la pesca con caña. Sólo puedo paliar la destructividad gratuita de mi diversión tratando de asegurarme a mí mismo que mi placer no proviene del éxito de la traición que practico hacia un pobre pececillo, sino más bien de ese inocente jolgorio en la exuberancia de la vida estival que sólo los pescadores disfrutan al máximo.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Verano, Deportes, Primavera

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• I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak of it and never without merriment or indignation. Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.

  Lydia M. Child

  Party, Blue, Years

  "An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VIII, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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• Una nación que no apoya y fomenta su teatro está -si no muerta- moribunda; igual que un teatro que no capta con risas y lágrimas el pulso social e histórico, el drama de su pueblo, el color genuino del paisaje espiritual y natural, no tiene derecho a llamarse teatro; sino sólo un lugar de diversión.

  Federico García Lorca

  Spiritual, Laughter, Drama

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• Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Adultery, Crime

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• Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thomas Jefferson, William Keeney Bixby, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1916). “Thomas Jefferson Correspondence: Printed from the Originals in the Collections of William K. Bixby”

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• Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Matter, Pleasure

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.221, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

  Plinio el Viejo

  Business, Men, Mind

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• In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular: In proportion as the manners, customs, and amusements of a nation are cruel and barbarous, the regulations of its penal code will be severe. In proportion as men delight in battles, bullfights, and combats of gladiators, will they punish by hanging, burning, and the rack.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Filosofía, Hombres, Dos

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• ... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Exercise, Army

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