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• Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

  Thomas Watson

  Men, Damn You, Laughing

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Great Gain of Godliness”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

  Rachel Klein

  Heart, Two, Humanity

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Two, Mentor, Ping Pong

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.

  David Mitchell

  Moving, Writing, Garden

  "Once upon a life" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Dark, Adults

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• I take it this is one of the ones crushing on you." "What? They all crush on me. I'm a hot college girl, remember?" I laughed and his eyes burned into mine. He leaned in close and whispered into my ear. "So hot. Now you've got me thinking what you looked like this morning, when i woke up with you in my arms, in my bed. Would it be too greedy to ask you to stay tonight, too?" "I was afraid you weren't going to ask.

  Tammara Webber

  Crush, Girl, Morning

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• He found a stuffed animal, a fluffy wolf with bright blue eyes, and was immediately drawn to it. "I want to get this for her. It is telling me it needs to go home with us." Francesca laughed at him.

  Christine Feehan

  Home, Eye, Animal

  Christine Feehan (2011). “Dark Legend: Number 8 in series”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• He laughed. A strained, ha, ha, ha, I may die of this laugh.

  Tessa Dare

  Laughing, May, Dies

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• Good God, you don’t give up.” “Nope.” I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his smile spread in response to the sound. “I’m sure there are plenty of girls who want to go out on a date with you.” “There are.” “Wow. Modest aren’t you?” “Why should I be?” he shot back. “And I want to go out on a date with you. Not them.

  J. Lynn

  Girl, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• I will kill him.” “Erra’s eyebrows rose. “You’d have to go through me first.” I shrugged. “I have to do something for a warm-up.” She laughed softly. “That’s the spirit. I do think you might be my favorite niece.

  Ilona Andrews

  Niece, Thinking, Eyebrows

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• Where are you going?" I asked, feeling guilty for not being able to hang out with him. "To find a faerie to kill me, of course." He winked at us, then pretended to fall straight through when the faerie door opened. Even Arianna laughed as the door closed behind him.

  Kiersten White

  Fall, Doors, Feelings

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• How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

  Terry Goodkind

  Who I Am, Knows, Do You Know

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.198, Head of Zeus

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• Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem

  Suzanne Collins

  Arena, Hunger, Trouble

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.246, Scholastic UK

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• To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Should Have, Done, Caught

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• I found people looked better when they laughed

  Mort Sahl

  People, Found

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• They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Girlfriend, Romance, Asking

  Leni Riefenstahl (1992). “The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl”

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• I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.

  Dan Wells

  Race, Age, Saving

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

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• It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

  Norman Lear

  Caring, Average, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mom, Country, Laughter

  Shel Silverstein, “Ticklish Tom”

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• The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Laughter, Men

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• You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know." Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn't!

  Brandon Sanderson

  Lying, People, Insane

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1526, Macmillan

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• She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sound, Wanted

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here." "How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious. "Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing." “How's that a duel?” "He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about." Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fashion, Rocks, Knives

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• They always assumed that I did not speak. That I could not. So many had plotted my death, discussed it, laughed about it, even while I was in the same room, because they assumed I was mindless. Like one of the failures of their kind, born mad. But I was not a failure. I was what I was supposed to be. I was dhampir. And they never lived to tell anyone they were wrong.

  Karen Chance

  Mad, Rooms, Kind

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.26, Penguin

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• He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.

  Tammara Webber

  Pain, Sound, Body

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