"I have not had any serious non-academic job."
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"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."
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"Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty."
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"Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them."
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"Work? It’s just serious play."
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"I didn't read a serious book until I was 19."
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"Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious."
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"AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious."
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"There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants."
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"No man can be merry unless he is serious."
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"Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity."
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"Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully."
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"Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown."
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"If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography."
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"I don't ever try to make a serious social comment."
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"Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action."
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"Serious numbers will speak to us always."
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"I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it."
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"Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through."
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"The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week."
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