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Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail.

—Mel Brooks

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A patient complaining of melancholy consulted Dr. John Abernethy. After an examination the doctor pronounced, "You need amusement. Go and hear the comedian Grimaldi; he will make you laugh, and that will be better for you than any drugs." Said the patient, "I am Grimaldi.

—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

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It was the kind of laughter that caught like briars in her chest and felt very much like pain.

—Katherine Paterson

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I don't think that the comic and the serious can be separated in talking about human reality, any more than you can separate hydrogen and oxygen and still be talking about water.

—Peter De Vries

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It's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

—Caroline Llewellyn

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Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.

—Anthony Burgess

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

—Milan Kundera

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Every single morning, I smell him. Even when I've changed my sheets, I smell him. When I roll onto the side of the bed he was on, I smell him. I can almost feel him—and then I want to call him. I wanna call him because I feel so helpless. So alone. All I wanna do is hear his voice.

—Shanora Williams in Who We Are

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When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it's a formula for misery.

—Suzanne Selfors in Mad Love

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Love is a strange concept. That the very sight of someone, the very mention of their name, can cause an intense chemical reaction inside you is crazy.

—Cassia Leo in The Way We Fall

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I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.

—Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

—Fran Lebowitz

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As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

—H. Rider Haggard

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And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.

—Stan Dunn

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

—William James

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