"Irony takes nothing away from pathos."

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"I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog."

Whitney M. Young, American Activist

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"Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating."

Simon Pegg, British Comedian

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"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Beware of giggle grins, they are highly contagious."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan.""

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one of you stick the world's longest finger up my ass. If a prostate check is an exam, that was a motherfucking safari. I was scared to look down. I thought I'd see that guy's finger nail sticking out of my cock."

Stephen King, American Author

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"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."

George Eliot, British Author

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"God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

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"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

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"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."

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"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."

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"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."

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"The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it."

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