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“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.”

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Author:Sophie Swetchine

“One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”

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Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“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.”

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

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

“Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”

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Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.”

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Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.”

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Author:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being played. I think Oscar Wilde said that life is too important to be taken seriously.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges