"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."
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"I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good."
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"All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning"
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"When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people."
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"Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh."
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"Laughing brains are more absorbent."
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"It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary."
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"So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder."
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"I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself."
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"If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?"
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"Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile."
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"If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy... easy laugh, nice guy."
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"The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them."
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"It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool."
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"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."
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"My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh."
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"I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy."
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"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country."
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"The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal."
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"That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?"
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