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There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.
Raymond ChandlerRead
So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.
Margaret AtwoodRead
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!
Richard BransonRead
there is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it
Oprah WinfreyRead
We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.
Susan J. DouglasRead
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl JungRead
You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
Richard P. FeynmanRead
I was taken to an examining room where a big butch nurse practitioner came in and asked me if I was pregnant. “No way!” Was I sexually active? “Nope!” Had I ever been molested? “Well,” I said, trying to make a joke, “Oprah says the only answers to that question are ‘Yes’ and ‘I don’t remember.’ ” I laughed. We were having fun. The nurse looked at me, concerned/annoyed.
Tina FeyRead
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Billy JoelRead
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
Billy JoelRead
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
Barbara KingsolverRead
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas JeffersonRead
Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
William FaulknerRead
One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.
William SaroyanRead
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
Leo BurnettRead
Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
Louisa May AlcottRead
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
Stephen KingRead
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
Jane GoodallRead
People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.
Sebastian FaulksRead
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
Dr. SeussRead
Sam screamed the fun scream, and there it was. Downtown lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. and in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
Stephen ChboskyRead

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