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So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord,...

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Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let yo...

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Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to clo...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of lif...

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is alw...

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Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed...

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The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finge...

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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy t...

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...

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We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Ou...

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You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer...

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I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your ...

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On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret...

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is ...

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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t...

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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are th...

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It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

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Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—bec...

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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think som...

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Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and g...

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You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child w...

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What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in adv...

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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn ...

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A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the go...

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...

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The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is...

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All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun...

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Thomas HardyJude the Obscure

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was...

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It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germani...

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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up...

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Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...

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They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more abo...

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It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and ...

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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighbo...

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,...

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...

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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...

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The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

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Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of...

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...

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I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill eve...

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John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is w...

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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do ge...

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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laught...

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She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of th...

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I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I ...

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Íngrid BetancourtEven Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...

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AberjhaniSplendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And swe...

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Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move ...

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The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that t...

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...

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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts o...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comic...

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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it is the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a ...

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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a m...

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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even pov...

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I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there i...

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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

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Bob MonkhouseCrying With Laughter: My Life Story

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the roug...

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If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages....

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There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep fro...

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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the tr...

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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true l...

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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for...

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I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to...

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Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It i...

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