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"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."

"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."

"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."

"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."

"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
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"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."

"In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside."

"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."

"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."

"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."

"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."

"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
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