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• Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

  Sherwood Smith

  Sorry, Appearance, Made

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• It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Sleep, Thinking, Years

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• High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

  Scott Westerfeld

  School, Fire, Track

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Midnighters #3: Blue Noon”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

  e. e. cummings

  Wise, People, Way

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• You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that it's about time that men got a movement. Think about it. Guys can't play the piano, or dance, or sing. We can't cry, or be too happy, or show any emotion for that matter. The only thing we have left to us is anger, and even that we have to bottle up. Boys should be able to express what they feel and not have to endure people laughing at them, forcing them to wonder if they're gay or not, just because they like to paint.

  Alex Sanchez

  Children, Gay, Men

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• They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

  Roberto Bolano

  Study, Picks

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• Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Good Night, Hurt, Morning

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• If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

  Dean Koontz

  Facts, Odd Thomas, Ifs

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.375, Bantam

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• He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wings, Goes On, Might

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• ...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?

  Katherine Hannigan

  Running, Sadness, Play

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• Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

  Anne Sexton

  Prayer, Fall, Love Is

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• Holy silicone suppository, Batman!” Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. “What?” My brother shrugged defensively. “That’s what it looks like.

  Rachel Vincent

  Brother, Looks, Holy

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.199, MIRA

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• He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Trying, Mankind, Doomed

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1352, Dell

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• And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  People

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• The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Father, Mouths

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Wrestling, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could see. We knew we'd be rich forever. We filled our pockets and our hair. We were rolled in gold. We ran through the field laughing and our legs and feet were coated in yellow dust, so that we were like golden statues or golden gods. He kissed my feet, the boy I was with, and when he smiled, he had a gold tooth. It was only a field of buttercups, but we were young.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Summer, Boys, Hair

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• If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

  Markus Zusak

  Laughter, Knowing, Feels

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.349, RH Childrens Books

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• Laugh now, cry later.

  Erma Bombeck

  Laughter, Cry

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• We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can get along this well, we can accomplish anything. The British policy was ‘divide and conquer.’ But I say ‘unite and conquer.

  Greg Mortenson

  Tea, Islam, Three

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• You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

  Kate Chopin

  Dream, Boys, Impossible Things

  "The Awakening". Book by Kate Chopin, 1899.

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• Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last laughs longest, and I intend to belly roll tonight ~Tabitha

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tonight, Lasts, Belly

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize The Night”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Is the fire gone?" "Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward." "I love you," he answered. "I know," I breathed, so tired. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Tired, Fire

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• I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Love, Kings, Heart

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Men, Desire, Sometimes

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1952). “Rashomon: and other stories”

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