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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

“As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.”

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Author:Allan Bloom

“... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.”

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Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.”

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Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

Source: In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage

“Don't take life too seriously.”

Source: Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style