"She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous."
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"People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!"
"Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully."
"That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed."
"In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask."
"It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer."
"To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous."
"I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension."
"Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous."
"There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."
"I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things."
"Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous."
"Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind."
"Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous."
"When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face."
"When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all."
"The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous."
"Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous."
"The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing."
"And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you."