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“I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.”

Faces Used Church Boys Laughing Thrown Priests Plates Altars Solemn Fourteen

Author:Elvis Costello

“the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.”

Ifs Boys Laughing Mystery Anxiety Laughter Importance

Book:A Place Called Saturday

Source: A Place Called Saturday

“God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of a child's smile, of dust motes in the sun. He is who He is, and always shall be. Look around you now. He is speaking always and everywhere. His personality can be seen and known and leaned upon. The sun is belching flares while mountains scrape our sky while ants are milking aphids on their colonial leaves and dolphins are laughing in the surf and wheat is rippling and wind is whipping and a boy is looking into the eyes of a girl and mortals are dying.”

Source: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

“I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.”

Feels Trying Littles Pain Mother Found Boys Laughing Sick Performing Feel Better Little Boys

Author:Jim Carrey

“Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?”

Dream Desire Boys Laughing Fame Illusion Blame Senses Admire Pyramids Unattainable Outlasting

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.”

Ifs Want Giving Trying Happens Boys Laughing Screens Sincere Hypocrite Entertainers Phony

Author:Johnny Carson

“You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.”

Thinking Knows Men Children Done Fun Poor Boys Laughing Angel Loud Poor Man

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.”

“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.”

People Way Mind Eye Age Black White Boys Laughing Week Broken Mouths Corners Newspapers Magazines Evening His Eyes Get Back Gang Twisted Of My Mind Swollen Emmett Till

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in common. My whole life, all I ever wanted was my dad to pat me on the top of the head and go, Who's a good boy ? Who's a good boy? But, instead, all he ever did was wipe peanut butter on the end of my nose and laugh while I tried to lick it off.”

People Want Ends Whole Wanted Common Boys Laughing Acceptance Dad Normal My Dad Accepted Whole Life Noses Wipe Peanuts Screwed Up Peanut Butter Good Boy

Author:Christopher Titus

“I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.”

Kind Boys Laughing Cry

Author:Kevin Brockmeier