"Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor."

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"Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor."

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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."

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Humor, Mental, Friend, Imagination

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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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Stephen King, American Author

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"And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good."

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