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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow esca

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

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The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

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Sky & Clouds
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Christopher Fry
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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

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Poetry
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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. – Michael Shermer

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I do respect peoples faith, but I dont respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. – Javier Bardem

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Faith

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, its because I really dont know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. – Richard Russo

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No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. – H. L. Mencken

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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that dont get wet you can keep. – Will Rogers

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[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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