be6d38c
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"Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein."
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investigation
isabelle-lightwood
jace-wayland
joke
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Cassandra Clare |
c905b7a
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I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
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cry
inspirational
joke
love
romance
smile
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Santosh Kalwar |
751864e
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"Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are." "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?" "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies."
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jace-wayland
joke
mummies
sarcasm
vampire
werewolf
zombies
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Cassandra Clare |
5a57562
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"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
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christmas
deathly-hallows
desire
family
joke
socks
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J.K. Rowling |
2d06814
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It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
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humor
joke
prank
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Rick Riordan |
013a295
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"Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable. Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. "Yeees?" "Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I"m afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!" Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!" "Sure it is. You just don't see the humor." "Jerk." Clary sighed, leaning up against the wall."
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humor
joke
phone
simon-lewis
tease
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Cassandra Clare |
2dc528f
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And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle-- Flint alongside her --poke him in the eye, Angelina --it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...
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humor
joke
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J.K. Rowling |
93fba22
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In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
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discordianism
eternity
humor
joke
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Hermann Hesse |
7a943cd
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Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
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intimacy
joke
kick
love
offense
shoot
sweet
violence
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Raymond Carver |
ab739bc
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Getting some redecorating ideas?' Nico asked. 'Maybe you could do your dining room in mediaeval monk skulls.' Hades arched an eyebrow. 'I can never tell when you're joking.
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joke
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Rick Riordan |
1b041e2
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"I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump."
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humor
joke
uncertainty
walking-the-line
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Tamora Pierce |
0ee1e67
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An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.
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humour
joke
united-states
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Christopher Hitchens |
7089ec3
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"But--let me tell you my cat joke. It's very short and simple. A hostess is giving a dinner party and she's got a lovely five-pound T-bone steak sitting on the sideboard in the kitchen waiting to be cooked while she chats with the guests in the living room--has a few drinks and whatnot. But then she excuses herself to go into the kitchen to cook the steak--and it's gone. And there's the family cat, in the corner, sedately washing it's face." "The cat got the steak," Barney said. "Did it? The guests are called in; they argue about it. The steak is gone, all five pounds of it; there sits the cat, looking well-fed and cheerful. "Weigh the cat," someone says. They've had a few drinks; it looks like a good idea. So they go into the bathroom and weigh the cat on the scales. It reads exactly five pounds. They all perceive this reading and a guest says, "okay, that's it. There's the steak." They're satisfied that they know what happened, now; they've got empirical proof. Then a qualm comes to one of them and he says, puzzled, "But where's the cat?"
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joke
ontology
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Philip K. Dick |
32f3812
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When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out. I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?
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funny
joke
kate
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Ilona Andrews |
45b38c2
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The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge.
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humor
joke
vindictive
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David Sedaris |
d1aa285
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Jack didn't fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn't comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesus' necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldn't stop laughing and had to sit down.
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humor
jesus
joke
necromancer
religion
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Ilona Andrews |
e10e4d5
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"Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'."
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joke
jonah-wizard
mistake
translation
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Gordon Korman |
c375ead
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Just don't ask me to deliver any more satyr babies and we'll get along great.
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humor
joke
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Rick Riordan |
d7164f1
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"The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, "I want to love, I want to live..."
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funny
humor
joke
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David Sedaris |
f1cc814
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"Balekin and Orlagh are planning your murder," I say flustered. "Yes," he says lazily. "So why did I wake at all?"
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joke
murder
nonchalance
sarcasm
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Holly Black |
fda36f2
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"I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?"
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joke
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
c52d22f
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The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.
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humour
joke
truth
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G.K. Chesterton |
ff2e8c0
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Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.
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funny
humour
joke
pity
sad
sadness
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Jonathan Tropper |
6a2d044
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Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!
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favorite
feynman
funny
genius
humor
joke
read
richard-feynman
richard-p-feynman
richard-phillips-feynman
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Gian-Carlo Rota |
dcd8dc1
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Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always be considered an insult. Always remember that umbrage can be taken by the lift of an eyebrow. Remember that if offence can possibly be taken, it will be.
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joke
offence
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Dick Francis |
f10b249
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"You should find something better to do with your time," Mandy told him. "I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up." "...Come again?" Alecto questioned with a tone of alarm in his voice. "I take photographs and develop them myself, I've got my own darkroom... it was a joke," Mandy laughed. "I love photography and I'm gonna be a photojournalist someday." "Really?" Alecto asked. For the first time since she'd met him, he sounded slightly enthusiastic. "...I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well... but I can't be a photojournalist like you... I can't be anything... still, at least I can take photographs, it's fun."
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april-fool-s
blow-up
camera
chemical
crazy
dark-room
darkroom
demented
develop
disturbing
enthusiasm
film
friends
funny
hilarious
home-movies
humor
insane
instamatic
joke
kodak
murder
nikon
photography
photography-humor
shoot
strange
super-8
weird
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Rebecca McNutt |
7cd5288
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As many as thirty or as few as ten years later, lying exhausted and still, eyes open in the dark long after the three suns of Rakhat had set, no longer bleeding, past the vomiting, enough beyond the shock to think again, it would occur to Emilio Sandoz to wonder if perhaps that day int he Sudan was really only part of the setup for a punchline a life-time in the making. It was an odd thought, under the circumstances. He understood that, even at the time. But thinking it, he realized with appalling clarity that on his journey of discovery as a Jesuit, he had not merely been the first human being to set foot on Rhakhat, had not simply explored parts of its largest continent and learned two of its languages and loved some of its people. He had also discovered the outermost limit of faith and, in doing so had located the exact boundary of despair. It was at that moment that he learned, truly, to fear God.
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faith
fear
god
humor
joke
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Mary Doria Russell |
768c021
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But that's why you pay for insurance, right? If you never file a claim, then they've beaten you.
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insurance
joke
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Jonathan Tropper |
36282ff
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"And what if the other kids laugh at me?" Kerry complained to her parents as she nibbled on a piece of toast that morning. "I have a Cape Breton accent! They'll know I'm from Canada and they'll start asking me if I lived in an igloo or ate maple syrup, bacon and seal meat every day!" "You're really overreacting," Susan chuckled, sipping on a glass of orange juice. "Canada is a lot like the States and the only thing separating both countries is an imaginary boarder! If anyone laughs at you, tell them it doesn't snow year-round, you got free health care while you were there and that you never rode a polar bear to school. Besides, do you know how many popular movies and TV shows from the States were filmed in Canada?" "It's not just the Canada stuff mom," Kerry sighed worriedly. "I'm from Dym, it's an industrial dump!" "Yeah, and have you looked at Pittsburgh lately?" Susan asked. "Full of coal mines and steel mills, just like Sydney was when we lived there! I actually rather came to like the pollution, I don't think I'd ever want to leave it."
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canada
cape-breton
funny
girl
joke
morning
nostalgia
nova-scotia
parents
pittsburgh
polar-bear
school
seal
stereotype
teen
teenager
united-states
weird
wisdom
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Rebecca McNutt |
70f6cad
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There was an old joke. Miller didn't remember where he'd heard it. Girl's at her own father's funeral, meets this really cute guy. They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn't know how to track the guy down. So a week later, she kills her mom. Big laugh.
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joke
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James S.A. Corey |
c583fe2
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I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.
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brat
cat
chance
charm
court
courtship
glorious
joke
like
love
narcissim
narcissistic
narcissus
poke-fun
pursue
remind
reminiscence
self-absorption
spoled
tease
woo
wooing
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Robin Hobb |
9761a48
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There was once a man named Joe... Joe was insecure because he had no ears. Joe couldn't hear a goddamn peep. And so he worked hard and saved up some money until eventually he was able to buy himself a pair of ears. And, for the first time in his life, he was able to hear the music of Beethoven and rejoice in the sound of a child's laughter. So Joe was no longer insecure about not having ears... although now he's a little insecure about his speech impediment.
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insecurity
insecurity-quotes
joke
problems-in-life
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David Michael Miller |
e299a07
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A story told me by Michael Barrie: Jesus and the Blessed Virgin go out to play golf. The Blessed Virgin is at the top of her form, drives and lands on the green. Jesus slices and lands in the bushes. A squirrel picks up the ball and runs off with it. A dog grab the squirrel, which still holds the ball in its mouth. An eagle swoops down, picks up the dog, squirrel and ball, and soars into the air. Out of a clear sky, lightning strikes the eagle, which drops the dog which drops the squirrel which drops the ball, right into the hole. The Blessed Virgin throws down her driver and exclaims indignantly, 'Look, are you going to play golf or just fuck around?
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gay-authors
joke
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Christopher Isherwood |
e23b684
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Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.
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dessert
food
funny
humour
joke
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Carl Hiaasen |
885ae1c
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"Me mum always told me the rich was blessed, but I thought she was talkin' about gold." She leaned over to cackle in his ear, then actually patted him on the head as if he was some slavering lapdog. "You might have escaped the gallows, lad, but you was already well hung."
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|
joke
raunchy
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Teresa Medeiros |
bfd58d2
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"Alecto... what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth's super 8 films, those powers of yours... how would they react?" "I don't know," said Alecto, "but ordinary people like a show, especially when it's a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery... probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how you know about Personifications, how you saw the films... they would put us in cages and throw peanuts at us, I guess." "All joking aside, Alecto...." "Who is joking, Mandy Valems?"
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film
humor
joke
misery
ordinary
peanuts
powers
psychokinesis
psychokinetic
pyrokinesis
pyrokinetic
show
super-8
super-8-film
super-eight
telekinesis
throw
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Rebecca McNutt |
b61155b
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"Please ejaculate", I silently urged the man, "so I can go to sleep". (In this way I imagine I was like millions of women before me"
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humour
joke
sex
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Jon Ronson |