“I will take a serious approach to a subject usually treated lightly, which is a nerdy thing to do.”
Benjamin Nugent (1950) American writer
Source: American Nerd: The Story of My People
“The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
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