"Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure."
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"April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears."
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"Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures."
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"I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy."
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"Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion."
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"If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue."
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"He laughed like an irresponsible foetus."
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"His laughter tinkled among the teacups."
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"To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese."
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"I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter."
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"Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years."
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"The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter."
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"Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter."
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"But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his--" Yes, he sounds like a real charmer," said Hermione, while Harry roared with laughter. Never married, for some reason," said Ron."
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"it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!"
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"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."
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"Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask."
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"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."
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"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing."
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"Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning."
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