#lit

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#back #could #create #distance #humour

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind. ↗

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#ladies #little #mind #more #virginity

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#big #charting #day-to-day #explore #familiar

A little man often cast a long shadow. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#little #little man #long #man #often

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members. ↗

— Julie Walters

#cast #cast members #feel #help #like

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#fall #rationality #tends #world

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#being #being funny #disability #funny #get

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#always #better #chinese #chinese food #comes

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#generate #humor #impossible #irony #little