Black Humor Quotes - Page 2

• A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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  You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

  George Burns

  Funny, Hilarious, Retirement

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

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• When in doubt, blow something up.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Funny, Writing, Blow

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• You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

  Jase Robertson

  Funny, Death, Redneck

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• The Muslims observe their Sabbath on Friday, the Jews observe on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. By the time Monday rolls around God is completely f***in' worn out.

  George Carlin

  Friday, Christian, Monday

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• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life And Love, Book, Athlete

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

  George Grosz

  Art, Mean, Imperfect World

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• Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.

  Demetri Martin

  Fire, Circles, Truck

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2013

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• As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Beautiful, Believe, Sunset

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• I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.

  Kurt Vile

  Writing, Black, Use

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• You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, College, Mad

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

  Karen Russell

  Black, Hunters, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Writing, College

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

  Marina Abramovic

  Black, Accepting, Terrible

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Simple, Black, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.

  David Foster Wallace

  Self, Ethos, People

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."

  William C. Brown

  Book, Mean, Men

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