Citations sur le rire et la joie
AvecLe monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Bourvil, commentant son prix d'interprétation dans La Traversée de Paris
La Philosophie de l'histoire, Cours 1822-1831
Variante: L'histoire n'est pas un lieu de félicité. Les périodes de bonheur y sont ses pages blanches.
“Crier le fascisme ne passera pas, ça fait passer tout le reste.”
Gros-Câlin, 1974
Arma graui numero uiolentaque bella parabam
Edere, materia conueniente modis.
Par erat inferior uersus ; risisse Cupido
Dicitur atque unum surripuisse pedem.
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Début du premier poème du premier livre. Catulle y justifie son emploi du distique élégiaque (type de vers faisant alterner un hexamètre dactylique et un pentamètre iambique plus court, par distinction avec l'épopée qui utilisait uniquement l' Hexamètre dactylique ), en se mettant en scène victime d'une farce de Cupidon.
Les Amours
Another thing that struck me was the great influence of the Negro, a psychological influence naturally, not due to the mixing of blood. The emotional way an American expresses himself, especially the way he laughs, can best be studied in the illustrated supplements of the American papers; the inimitable Teddy Roosevelt laugh is found in its primordial form in the American Negro. The peculiar walk with loose joints, or the swinging of the hips so frequently observed in Americans, also comes from the Negro. American music draws its main inspiration from the Negro, and so does the dance. […] The vivacity of the average American, which shows itself not only at baseball games but quite particularly in his extraordinary love of talking - the ceaseless gabble of American papers is an eloquent example of this - is scarcely to be derived from his Germanic forefathers, but is far more like the chattering of a Negro village. […] Thus the American presents a strange picture: a European with Negro behaviour and an Indian soul.
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Lettre à M. l’abbé
Correspondance
I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche, and then applies an antibiotic cream... Obviously, it’s a challenge to make light of the darkness but, um, it’s better than crying about it.
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