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"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."
"There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked."
"I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up."
"My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige."
"I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that."
"It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something."
"Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
"If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."
"Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life."
"We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
"Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Just practice that and watch what happens."
"There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!"
"The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn."
"I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud."
"Laugh at your problems; everybody else does."
"I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong."
"She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing."
"I haven't shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!"
"Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do."
"Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves."
