"The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't-whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

Humor, Manipulation, Belief, Effect

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"The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't-whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

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"I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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"Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth. And laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death. And sometimes, it isn't in time."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"If they gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and go to fucking church,' the cabbie said, and they both burst out laughing."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.""You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. Theyare my old friends. I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."

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"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."

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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

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"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper."

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"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."

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"TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee."

Reality

"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."

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"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went."

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"Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief."

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