"To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers."
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"Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh."
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"I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view."
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"At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say."
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"Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you."
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"She is laughing up her sleeve at you."
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"People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time."
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"It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?"
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"I came up with myself. FAYZ. Spelled F-A-Y-Z. It stands for Fallout Alley Youth Zone. Fallout Alley, and nothing but kids." Howard laughed his mean laugh. "Don't worry, Astrid, it's just a FAYZ. Get it? Just a FAYZ."
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"I love making people laugh."
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"Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will provoke me - I know he will provoke me! And there are times when I simply refuse to be provoked. And the other times you have to use that superior knowledge to carry on at work without distraction, and don't allow yourself to be distracted. I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes."
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"I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh."
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"He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics."
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"It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh."
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"I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?"
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"A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can."
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