Variant: Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
“The smile is the shortest distance between two persons”
Victor Borge (1909–2000) Danish and US-American comedian and musician
Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker
http://da.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Borge
From his autobiography Smilet er den korteste afstand
Source: Victor Borge, "Smilet er den korteste afstand (The Smile is the Shortest Distance)"
“The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.”
Theodor W. Adorno book Minima Moralia
Nun gilt für die kürzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Personen die Gerade, so als ob sie Punkte wären.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
"The Floating Truth"
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Source: Anthony De Mello : Writings (1999), p. 8
Context: A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: "You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story."
Helen Thomas (1920–2013) American author and journalist
Interview by Adam Holdorf for Real Change News, (18 March 2004).
“A space representing the shortest distances for messages to travel…”
James Grier Miller (1916–2002) biologist
Living Systems: Basic Concepts (1969)
“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
