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The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

Main Obligation Amuse Yourself
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life Virtue Amusement
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Clever White Religion Amused
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.

Cities Big Style Same
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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.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

Among Art Country Endearing
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I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Arms Heads Museums Other
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
Earth Frogs Giraffes Like
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Art Baths Bubble Friends
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I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

Never Standup Step Away
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The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

Dread Early Essential Find
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I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
Amused Disgusted Now Try
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I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

Art Eye Thinking
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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Axis Babies Baby Been
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You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Fairy Like Muse Should
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Convey Story Particular Idea
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The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Church Sinners Museum Hospital
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Read Dance Amusements Harm
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Ambitious Amuse Children Instruction
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

Art Censor Go Me
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit

Laughter Joy Mockery Opportunities
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Act Amusement Generally Marriage
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There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.

Become Coat Designers Differently
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Europe Listened Long Muses
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I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

Amusement Baseball Being Events
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Attempting Down Most Muse
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Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Devoted amusement Love pleasure
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Food Mural Museums Par
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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Food Mural Museums Par
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Control Does Muse Work
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
Art Books Go Like
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Amused Before Learns Old
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Amused Amusement Because Friends
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Affections Amusement Flat Friendly
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Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.

Men Funny characters Something
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Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Acquainted Be The First Became Began
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Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Happy Man Muses love Sweet speech
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Any Apt Classes Fill
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By May 29, my phones had stopped ringing as they used to. They more or less became museum pieces; their silence reminding me of the four years of my life that proved so momentous.

May 29 Phones My life Museum
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Nigeria is on fire, and the citizens are amused.
Nigeria Fire Amused Citizens
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The more institutions and freedoms and benefits one can take for granted – of which in my view free state-supported galleries and museums come high on the list – the more civilised a society is.

More institutions Freedom Benefit Granted
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I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

I Think People Nothing
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If the artworks were owned or celebrate slavery or slave owners, they should be withdrawn from the museums

The artworks Were owned Celebrate slavery Withdrawn
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The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

Real inspiration I have The life I live
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Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

Let passion Your muse Teach you To trust
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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

A person Knows how To laugh Never ceased
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