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• Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.

  Larry McMurtry

  Fate, Yankees, Rest Of Life

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• "I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet. "Did you take it?" "Would I be calling you if I had?" "Maybe," I said. He laughed. "True, but I'm not going to take it." "Why not?" "Friendship." "Try again," I said. "I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you." "Comforting."

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  People, Comforting, Trying

  "The Killing Dance (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, Book 6)". Book by Laurell K. Hamilton, June 1, 1997.

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• Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

  Robin McKinley

  Laughter, Stones, Sunlight

  Robin Mckinley (2008). “Chalice”, p.55, Penguin

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• Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.

  Annie Dillard

  Couple, Scare, Ponds

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.119, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

  Miranda July

  Said Life, Life Is, Easy

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Smart, Hollies, Dinner

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

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• I remember after I dated this white man, nobody said anything but there was a couple of men in my family that joked after that. 'Oh yeah, we had a party when y'all broke up. Hee hee hee.' And, you know, they laughed, and it was like light and a joke. But, you know, that's real. That was real and they let me know. And, it's almost acceptable within our culture to be prejudiced toward whites because of our history. This country is loaded with racism .

  Sanaa Lathan

  Country, Couple, Real

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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• A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

  William Butler Yeats

  Swimming, Mermaid, Body

  William Butler Yeats, “A Man Young And Old”

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• She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

  George R. R. Martin

  Father, Knives, Laughing

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• I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.

  Anne Rice

  Eyelashes, Ankles, Saws

  Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Queens, Believe

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'

  Howie Mandel

  Laughter, Night, Candid Camera

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

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• Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.

  Toni Morrison

  Fun, Block, Reading

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• The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

  Ron White

  Team, America, Hardest

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• It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

  Carrie Underwood

  Nice, Night, Support

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• Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.

  Michael Symon

  Kids, Emotional, Greek

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• Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

  Jonathan Swift

  Humor, Men, Laughing

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• During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

  Jerry Stiller

  Depression, Men, People

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

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• That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

  Gertrude Stein

  Answers, Said, Cases

  Reported in Donald Sutherland, Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work (1951). Stein's companion Alice B. Toklas, who was with her at her death, reported Stein's words as, "What is the answer? ... In that case... what is the question?" (Alice B. Toklas, What Is Remembered [1963]), and did not identify these specifically as the last words.

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• We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

  Steven Spielberg

  Crazy, Ideas, Littles

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• I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

  Johnny Depp

  Couple, Brando, Practicals

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, "Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters." So she planted trees anyway.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Thinking, Government, Laughing

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

  David Sedaris

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• My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Brother, Kids, Poor

  "What I've Learned: Dick Van Dyke" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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