"My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... in me anything is possible, for I am he who at the supreme moment, in front of absolute nothingness, will laugh."
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"Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things."
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"Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times."
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"The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation of all the previous facts — the punch-line…Reinterpretation alone is insufficient. The new model must be inconsequential. For example, a portly gentleman walking toward his car slips on a banana peel and falls. If he breaks his head and blood spills out, obviously you are not going to laugh. You are going to rush to the telephone and call an ambulance. But if he simply wipes off the goo from his face, looks around him, and then gets up, you start laughing. The reason is, I suggest, because now you know it’s inconsequential, no real harm has been done. I would argue that laughter is nature’s way of signaling that "it’s a false alarm." Why is this useful from an evolutionary standpoint? I suggest that the rhythmic staccato sound of laughter evolved to inform our kin who share our genes; don’t waste your precious resources on this situation; it’s a false alarm. Laughter is nature’s OK signal."
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"I don’t care what other people think about me. Most people are idiots, and they can think whatever they want."
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"You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that."
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"You walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic."
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"We're authors. We're more than a little unstable."
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"Ridcully sighed.'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's playing silly buggers'The other senior wizards stared at him.'I, I, I don't think we can play it any more,' said the Bursar, who at the moment was only occasionally bouncing off the sides of sanity, 'I, I, I think we lost some of the pieces..."
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"Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win"
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"I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane"
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"For just a second, Lauren wonders if she’s going insane. But insane people don’t think they’re insane, everybody knows that. But...since that fact of insanity is common knowledge, doesn’t that mean an insane person could use it to convince themselves they’re not actually insane? Wouldn’t that make them even more insane?"
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"I know all about insanity. It's not that bad once you beat up everyone who teases you about it."
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"Just because I'm insane doesn't mean I have to act all crazy."
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"Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset."
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"Loving someone is very different from the heady feeling of being "in love," which is, frankly, just temporary insanity."
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"He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs."
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"I could not imagine the kind of person that would, upon seeing a crazy talcum-powder-covered Southern lady think to herself, Hmmmm, she might make a great new friend. The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin."
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"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
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"The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip."
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