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“Nonetheless, when it finally ended and the hairdressers left and Tess insisted upon pulling her to the mirror, Fire saw, and understood, that everyone had done the job well. The dress, deep shimmer...”
“Ha ha ha ha! Tee-hee-hee!Mwa-ha mwa-ha!Kee kee kee!Ho ho ho ho! Haw-hee-haw! Heh heh heh heh!Gah guffaw! Hoo hoo hoo hoo!Hoi hoi-eee!Ba ha ha ha! Tsee tsee tsee!Giggle, titter,snicker, crow,laughte...”
“...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The ...”
“And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.”
“The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.”
“Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.”
“Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.”
“Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.”
“Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to a...”
“Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.”
“For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.”
“Passion does not translate easily into good income.”
“I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate p...”
“He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong”
“Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?”
“Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.”
“This little colloquy in Adele's box was really the foundation of the secret society of the Luciaphils, and the membership of the Luciaphils began swiftly to increase. Aggie Sandeman was scarcely el...”
“A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.”
“She gave him a double-birded salute, and he barked out a rusty laugh. Im laughing. Me. When was the last time that had happened? He couldnt remember. But she kept doing things to amuse him. Shock h...”
“Oh, girl! He's got a big one, the fortune teller exclaimed, her dark eyes briefly flickering up to Violet's face before returning back to the cards spread out in front of her. She paused for a mome...”
