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“Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.”

Should Faces Values Fiction Taken Serious Pages Entertainment Relaxation Escapism Serious Business Face Value

Author:Rachel Wade

“Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.”

School Serious Mark Very Good Serious Business

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.”

Should Writing Joy Fun Serious Having Fun Celebration Serious Business

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.”

Ifs Heart Existence Serious Cold Astronomy Cages Jewels Ruthless Cosmology Serious Business Sifting

Author:Dennis Overbye

“Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.”

Life Life Is Serious Too Short Life Is Too Short Serious Business

Book:The Little critic: essays, satires and sketches on China (first series: 1930-1932)

Source: The Little critic: essays, satires and sketches on China (first series: 1930-1932)

“I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.”

Trying Christian Mother Serious Lovers Jew Buddhist Good Friend Buddy Good Mother Serious Business Good Lovers Good Buddhist

Author:Maya Angelou

“Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.”

Kind Art Ideas Sides Special Serious Architecture Australia Materialism Distraction Serious Business

Book:Artificial Australia

Source: Artificial Australia

“I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

Men Should Humans Serious Regard Theatre Serious Business

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.”

Life Self Pain Remember Life Is Spirit Pleasure Sacrifice Serious Self Sacrifice Serious Business

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.”

People Joy Heaven Serious Merriment Serious Business

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.”

People Purpose Business Laughing Comedy Serious Making People Laugh Serious Business

Author:W. C. Fields

“My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

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Author:Arthur Miller

“This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.”

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Author:Sarah Lacy

“This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.”

Sex Violence Rocks Serious Rock And Roll Serious Business

Author:John Mellencamp