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• There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

  Albert Camus

  Creating, Talent, Produce

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

  Margaret Atwood

  Age, Bags, Mouths

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• A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

  Edith Wharton

  Dramatic, Significance, Acquire

  Edith Wharton, Janet Beer (2002). “The House of Mirth”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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• Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.

  Dean Koontz

  Stars, Silly, Who I Am

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• We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Meaningful, Profound, Goal

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• Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

  Virginia Woolf

  Ifs

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.603, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Moving, Fall

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.113, Modern Library

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

  George Santayana

  Change, Children, Persistence

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Farewell, Leisure

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• They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

  Imelda Marcos

  Looks, Faces, Settling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Taxation, Regulation

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• So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

  Mike Huckabee

  Real, Home, Issues

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• Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

  Antonio Banderas

  Honesty, Thinking, Careers

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  Imelda Marcos

  Country, Book, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Would Be, Conflict, Difficulty

  "Die Reden des Ministerpräsidenten von Bismarck-Schönhausen im Preußischen Landtage 1862-1865". Book by Horst Kohl, 1903.

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Games, Joy

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Giving, Sensual, Desire

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• To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wish, Firsts, Serious

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• I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

  Prabal Gurung

  Fashion, Jobs, New York

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• Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

  George Washington

  Men, Order, Mind

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

  Bill Ayers

  Boys, Mind, Fool

  William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• ...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.

  Austin Farrer

  Heart, Flying, Doe

  Austin Farrer (2012). “Reflective Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Want, Bizarre, Made

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Men, Rewards

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• Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

  Lillian Hellman

  War, Struggle, Ties

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