"He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him."

Humor, Emotion, Joy, Observation

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"He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him."

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"We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers. Everybody knows life doesn't make any sense at all, so we just better deal with the whole mess. Have a beer. Have a cup of coffee. Have a piece of cake. Go out to a movie. Enjoy the Popcorn."

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"I don't know what the exact shape of my life will take--and what the days to come will bring--except i know that i am happy and my heart is still. I know that I have fallen in love with the word surrender and know that I can no longer live in disappointment."

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"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."

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"What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If you stay connected to an insane world, well, you just go crazy. This is not a complicated theory. It's just simple logic."

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