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Jonathan Franzen

"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."

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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."

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"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."

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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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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

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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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"I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films."

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"What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down."

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"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."

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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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"Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative."

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"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."

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"'s one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling."

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