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"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."
"In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped."
"I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird."
"Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously."
"If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom."
"The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter."
"Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed."
"It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry."
"I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious."
"Alec Baldwin has done this great Donald Trump. I wish somebody would hire Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions. The only way is to put the two of them out there. it is the most bizarre, pathetic silliness I can imagine at what should be the most serious deliberations in the American government."
"And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer."
"When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it."
"Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake."
"It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate."
"When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful."
"There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino."
"All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!"
"The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly."
"We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle."
"I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible."
