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“Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.”

Reason Serious Laughter Moved Occasions Invited Seriousness Amused Merriment

Book:Under dispute

Source: Under dispute

“I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.”

Littles Used Bits Serious Little Bit Moved Used To Be Addict Moved On Sneakers I've Moved On

Author:Mark Ronson

“...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.”

Men Two Done Able Doors Serious Moved Lifts Muscles Pace Chivalry Handkerchiefs Solicitude

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts

“There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.”

“When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months of attacking Afghanistan, Bush clearly moved on to get ready for Iraq, long before Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda were dispensed with. There was never any serious debate in the press about whether even the notion that every Taliban was our enemy was valid. A lot of assumptions about that war were never challenged.”

Long War Enemy Serious Moved Debate Assumption Afghanistan Bin Laden Al Qaeda Taliban Osama Bin Laden

Author:Seymour Hersh

“William Faulkner was the master of what one must do to be serious. But I don't understand why people haven't moved forward from that, why that's not where the line in the sand is that you would see from. When I think about the reception of my own writing and what seems "difficult," there is an actual precedent.”

People Thinking Writing Difficult Serious Moved Sand

Author:Douglas A. Martin