“New York City is a place where one can weep on the sidewalk in perfect privacy.”
William Maxwell
more infosource: So Long, See You Tomorrow (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 131.
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“Laughter is heard farther than weeping.”
Proverb
more infosource: 1001 Yiddish Proverbs, by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 13.
category: laughter, proverb, sadness, tears, weeping, Yiddish proverbs
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notes: translated in Yiddish: A gelechter hert men veiter vi a gevain.
“Schopenhauer: the task of philosophy is to turn tears into knowledge. And for me, a sigh into a tweet.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 11:57 AM Apr 14, 2010 via web
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category: knowledge, philosophy, Schopenhauer, tears, tweet, Twitter pearls
medium: social media
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