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Quotations About / On: FUNNY
 

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  The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.
 
(Tennessee Williams (1914-1983), U.S. dramatist. Self-interview, in Observer (London, April 7, 1957).)
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  It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife

 
(Unknown. I Eat My Peas with Honey (l. 3-4). . . New Treasury of Children's Poetry, A; Old Favorites and New Discoveries. Joanna Cole, comp. (1984) Doubleday & Company.)
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  This funny thing called love.
 
(Cole Porter (1893-1964), U.S. songwriter. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" Wake Up and Dream, Harms, Inc. (1929). Music composed by Jerome Kern (1885-1945).)
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  What a sad business, being funny.
 
(Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), British actor, screenwriter, director. Terry (Claire Bloom), Limelight, to Calvero (Charles Chaplin) after he tells her of his downfall in show business (1952).)
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  A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
 
(Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author. letter, Dec. 6, 1924. Selected Letters, ed. Carlos Baker (1981).)
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  Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
And me supposed to be ignorant,
Or find it funny, or not to care....

 
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Love Again.")
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  Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
 
(Ronald Knox (1888-1957), British scholar, priest. Essays In Satire, introduction (1928).)
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  It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing—nothing.
 
(Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, playwright and anthropologist. Amram, in Moses Man of the Mountain, ch. 2, J.B. Lippincott (1939).)
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