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“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Feelings Romance Literature Attention Serious Standards Critics Beach Topics Unworthy About Family Double Standard

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.”

Feels Feelings Inspire Serious Honor Respect Height Serious Things

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the feeling that ministers are incapable of tackling serious issues.”

Littles Facts Feelings Government Issues Serious Paid Add Ministers Incapable Tackling Malaise Serious Issues

Author:Vince Cable

“Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.”

Thinking Important Play Feelings Dream Roles Serious Communication Tricks Surprising Frivolous Pun Play On Words

Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

“If I can be serious now, and I have the feeling I can.”

Ifs I Can Feelings Serious

Author:David Letterman

“Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.”

World Trying Important Ideas Feelings Poetry Literature Serious Poetry Is Serious Business

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.”

Ifs Should Feelings Moral Subjects Serious Pornography Excluded Compunction Serious Subjects

Author:David Salle

“Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.”

Long Feelings Courses Serious Higher Exercise Activity Discovery Originals Silent Invention Flash Cultivation

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.”

Feelings Problem Lasts Fun Football Serious Drama Bird Pressure Scared Managers Soccer Mask Scotland Chairman Flu Bird Flu

Author:Jose Mourinho

“[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.”

Believe Stills Feelings Laughing Youth Serious Vices Soil Ridicule Shameless Earnestness True Feelings

Author:Madame de Stael

“It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.”

Children Feelings Strong Growth Emotional Serious Wall Consequence Stronger Prison Prisoner Repressed Emotional Growth Prison Walls

Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition