"Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason."
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"Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view."
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"The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning."
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"The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper."
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"Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself."
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"Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it."
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"I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!"
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"Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason."
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"There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting."
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"If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps."
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"Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?"
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"One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live."
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"The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff."
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"The whole notion of one person being enough for everything gets instantly challenged when you start to talk with somebody about wanting more or of wanting something else. They take it personally, feel like a failure or feel that they lack something, so you don't talk about it because you don't want to hurt, offend, or scare the other person. You also don't want to be rejected or have them leave you, whatever the reason."
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"Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it."
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"I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it."
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"You are here for a reason."
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"Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand."
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"She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short."
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"Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die."
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