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“Jokainen ihminen sepittää tarinoita maailmasta ja itsestään. Tarinat sivuavat toisiaan, mutta sopivat yhteen vain sieltä täältä, kokonaisuus jonka ne muodostavat on pelkkä sopimus. Kun kerromme itsestämme, tarvitsemme sivuhenkilöiksi toisia ihmisiä, pakotamme heidät tekemään meistä sen mikä haluamme olla. Samalla pakotamme itsemme sellaisiksi jollaisina kuvittelemme muiden meidät haluavan.”

“Jokaisessa kansassa on suuri joukko seikkailumielisiä hölmöjä, jotka vainuavat hartaasti, mistä maailman kolkasta löytyisi käyteaine mellakoille ja levottomalle elämälle. He ovat sokeita sille mikä on parasta heidän vanhemmissaan - ja uskallettakoon sanoa mikä on parasta - nimittäin vanhempien väsynyt äreys, ainaiset varoitukset, huolehtiminen lasten tulevaisuudesta, jankkaavat elämänohjeet, uhkailut vastoinkäymisistä, kehotukset ahkeruuteen ja opiskeluun, arkipäiväinen elämä ja sellaiset kansanomaiset, perinteelliset tietämykset, kuin "useampi päivä kuin makkara" ja "vielä se routa porsaan kotiin ajaa".”

“Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I tend to bail out of the joke, I lose commitment in it, I'll give you an example: Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.”

“Joker: Question. Would you die for me? Harley Quinn: Yes. Joker: That's too easy. Will you... Would you live for me? ... Hmm? Harley Quinn: Yes. Joker: Careful! Do not say this oath thoughtlessly! ... Desire becomes surrender, surrender becomes power. You want this? Harley Quinn: I do. Joker: Say it. Say it. Say it! Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty... Harley Quinn: Please?! Joker: Mm, God, you're so... good!”

“Jokes and media slurs about rape and its survivors not only desensitize the issue but also have an impact on rape conviction rates! "Widespread “myths and stereotypes” about rape victims may give jurors “preconceived ideas” that could affect their decisions in court. When victims were demonised in the media, you can see how juries would bring their preconceptions to bear." -Alison Saunders, head of the Crown Prosecution Service, UK.”

“Jokes are great capsules of information. I think they should never be censored. They often are offensive - and we're offended by different things - but I believe deeply in what Freud wrote of their relationship to the unconscious, which is that jokes come to help us. We laugh so as to dispense with, or to express, some ambivalence or discomfort with the things around us. That's what laughing is: a release.”

“Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.”

“Jokingly, I tell my friends that Jackson Wang, Is definitely my Soulmate 2.0. The way he talks about love, the future and his future partner, Well, that’s the kind of love I wish to know. So I asked my cards the others day, I asked if he were you. They mockingly told me yes, And I rolled my eyes, knowing it to be untrue. You see, I’m not good at mathematics, Literature is what I do, But I know enough to know that 45 million people plus 1… That does not equal me and you.”

“Jolie. That’s her name. Jolie Dubois. I don’t bother writing it down, because it’s already engraved on my brain. There are claws in my chest, rearranging organs and making me new. Making me into whatever she needs me to be. I will worship her. I will find this sweet girl and protect her from any harm. She is mine to guard, to keep, to marry. To fuck. I’ve never had much interest in females. They are merely objects that need to be avoided so I can kill the men I am contracted to execute. They are occasional, faceless tools of comfort. This one is my angel. She was sent for me. My singing blood is telling me so.”