- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor Quotes
Because laughing helps.
Many of these quotes treat being genuinely funny as essential rather than optional, something prized within families above almost any other trait, closely related to the funny collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
- Species
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a species, we would not have survived without humor.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It's part of our grief process. If we don't know what else to do, we laugh. That's a very real thing.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.
- Nov 07, 2020
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020