Laughter Quotes
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A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.
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In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.
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The highest state is laughter.
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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He gave us the gift of love and laughter, ... even in his passing.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
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I just hope to tell stories that help change people's minds about loving and accepting others. And one of the best ways we can do that is through laughter.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
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Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere.
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If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.
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The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.
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Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.
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The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
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I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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Here's my story: My mother and I were at Cirque du Soleil, looking down on Shiner doing his act. She was always tolerant of my being a clown, but I don't remember her rolling with laughter. But with Shiner, she could not sit up straight!
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There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.
