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  1. Alain de Botton _ The News: A User's Manual

    But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.
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  2. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
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  3. Günter Grass _ Cat and Mouse

    Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental;
    book-quotejokingseriousness

  4. Ray Bradbury

    I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."
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  5. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A

    And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?""The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped...""That's not what I asked. Where is it?""I don't know - how can I answer that?""That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of What anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery."My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.
    book-quoteunderstandingignoranceseriousness
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