Michael Maccoby quotes

Michael Maccoby quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some things seriously.”
-- Michael Maccoby

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“Why would you ever rest from what you love?”
-- Michael Maccoby

Source : Michael Maccoby (2012). “Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails”, p.30, Crown Business

“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.”
“Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.”
“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”
“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”
“I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.”
“The actor becomes an emotional athlete.”
“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”
“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”
“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”

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