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"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."
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"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
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"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."
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"A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House."
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"Excuse me, I must go and putt."
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"There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters."
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"But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun."
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"But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well."
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"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
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"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
Help
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
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