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Art is both creation and recreation.

Lin Yutang

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Lin Yutang
Age: 80 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 10
Died: 1976
Died: March 26
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Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
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Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.
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All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
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Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.
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Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.
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Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.
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Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.
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Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
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By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.
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Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
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No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
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Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
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The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
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My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
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The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
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