“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”

— Arundhati Roy, book The God of Small Things

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Indian novelist, essayist 1961

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

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“We can summarize utilitarianism thus: Happiness is what matters, and everyone's happiness counts the same. This doesn't mean that everyone gets to be equally happy, but it does mean that no one's happiness is inherently more valuable than anyone else's.”

Joshua Greene (1974) American psychologist

Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (2013), p. 170

“It's something that you dream about, but Milli Vanilli got a Grammy. So it's hard to decide whether you're happy or not.”

Brandon Flowers (1981) American indie rock singer

When asked by Rolling Stone if he was "psyched" to be nominated for another Grammy.
"Grammy Preview: The Killers," Rolling Stone magazine (issue 993), February 9, 2006

“Yes, if you happen to be interested in philosophy and good at it, but not otherwise – but so does bricklaying. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

When asked "Does philosophy contribute to happiness?" (SHM 76), as quoted in The quotable Bertrand Russell (1993), p. 149
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