"Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!"
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"The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view."
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"Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at."
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"You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane"
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"And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing."
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"Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves."
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"I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!"
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"Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider."
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"It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me."
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"My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that.""
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"And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time."
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"One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life."
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"If the person laughs well, they are a good person."
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"A German joke is no laughing matter."
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"She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings."
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"My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh."
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"I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all."
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"Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to."
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"I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]"
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"I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh."
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