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• In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh . . . ha, ha. I didn't catch the pun, but thank you, Carter. God of the dead, drop-dead gorgeous. Yes, hilarious. Now, may I continue?]

  Rick Riordan

  Anubis, May, Drop Dead Gorgeous

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.279, Penguin UK

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• Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

  Richelle Mead

  Clever, Hands, Truth Is

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.191, Zebra Books

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• I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Helping, Nonsense

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

  Terence McKenna

  Differences, Dying, Psychedelic

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• I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

  John Oliver

  Thinking, Behavior, Form

  "The (Not So Fine) Fine Art of The Pun". Interview with Benjamin Phelan, www.gq.com. August 5, 2011.

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• Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.

  Gregory Orr

  Moving, Years, Echoes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

  DJ Spooky

  Symphony, Strings, Arrangements

  Source: bigthink.com

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• [Big Pun] loved the fact that I could sing, everybody around us were rappers. A lot of people didn't know that Pun really, really loved r&b music.

  Tony Sunshine

  Rapper, People, Facts

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

  Tom Stoppard

  Birthday, Long, Age

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• A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Laughing, Upset

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

  Garry Winogrand

  Play, Way, Narrative

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• For any healthy relationship to work you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends. And to have a healthy relationship with your friends - and to be honest, if they "know you", pardon the pun, then they'll understand that you need to spend time with your partner. If people are pulling at you from both sides then maybe there's something a little off balance within the relationship. But it also depends on how you are as a person. You need to set the guidelines quite clearly, and say "I need my friends im my life. I got with you, but my friends are part of me also".

  Craig David

  People, Healthy, Balance

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

  Antonio Damasio

  Sorry, Emotional, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.

  Corri Wilson

  Winning, Men, Nominations

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel.

  Mary Kay Zuravleff

  Dog, Silly, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Criticism, Abbreviations, Artistic

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• I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

  Mason Cooley

  Wisdom, Riddle, Spells

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• But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.

  Meg Cabot

  Different

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• LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Opportunity, Frowning, Lasts

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Dream, Communication, Thinking

  Milton H. Erickson, Ronald A. Havens (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy”, p.63, Ardent Media

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• An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

  Leigh Hunt

  Art, Clever, Writing

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• One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

  St. Vincent

  Country, Thinking, Appreciate

  "St Vincent: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

  Jeremy Piven

  Childhood, Together, Facts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

  Allan Sloan

  Sarcastic, Writing, Sarcasm

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• Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Definitions, Coincidence

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