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“This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.”

Source: The Carpet People

“Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.”

People Dream Brother Ambition Built Wings Myth Noble Uplifting Greek Tragic Heroic American Dream Flew Comical Icarus Greek Myth Wright Brothers

Author:John C. Wright

“It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.”

Men Want Problem Culture Laughing Cry Expectations Solve Strikes Memorable Untrue Comical

Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.”

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Author:Will Eisner

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”

“A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.”

Boys Hats Farms Cowboy Leather Comical

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.”

Thinking Wells Sometimes Hours Poor Fool Quitting Breakup Break Up Bye Fooled Good Bye Saying Good Bye Comical

Author:Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“Y'all mythological niggas is comical, The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you... And embalmin' in your crew, too. With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do.”

Knows Know How Musical Hip Hop Rap Crew Mystical Flu Comical

Author:Keith Murray

“Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.”

“It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.”

Believe Law Humanity Bits Black Religious Possibility Position Scientist Miracle Intellect Holes Centre Laws Of Nature Respectable Black Hole Comical

Author:William Golding

“Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.”

Remember Life Is Sides Rich Variety Comical

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical. I thought that that must be embarrassing for him, and thought how much more pleasant it was to be a girl. That, by the way, is an opinion I still hold today.”

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Author:Anne Desclos

“At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.”

“I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.”

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Author:Og Mandino

“I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!”

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Author:W. S. Gilbert

“The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.”

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Author:John Boehner

“Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.”

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Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations, and whatever he brought in his flask.”

Men Two Young Games Air Program Sight Twenties Mysterious Young Man Articles Spectators Formation Rushing Fresh Air Comical Twenty Two Flasks

Author:Robert Benchley

“Somebody thinking that they can make noise intimidate me is comical.”

Thinking Motivation Noise Fighter Intimidating Comical

Author:Carl Froch

“I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.”

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Author:Daniel H. Pink

“All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it.”

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Author:John Patrick Shanley

“On 'Lab Rats,' I read the script probably three or four times before we ever even do a table read because I want to be completely prepared. And I want to know exactly which beats I have to hit and where I need to make something comical. Some lines need a little more than others do just to get the point across, to get the joke to be funny.”

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Author:Billy Unger

“And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.”

Knows Capable Invention Toronto Choreography Comical

Author:Richard Ouzounian

“If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.”

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Author:Kevin Sorbo

“I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.”

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Author:Eugene Chadbourne

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