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Joyce Grenfell
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“There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.”
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“... ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.”
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“I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.”
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“I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving — not giving and taking.”
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“He's a professional musician. I mean, he can do it even when he's not in the mood.”
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“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.”
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“Let me give freely lest my giving take / With it freedom. Not the frailest strand / Of obligation must go with my gift ...”
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“... the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.”
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“We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.”
Joyce Grenfell, English actor, comedian, monologist, singer-songwriter
(1910 - 1979)
Full name: Joyce Irene Phipps Grenfell, OBE.