
“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
Ernest Hemingway
more infosource: A Moveable Feast (New York: Scribner, 2009), restored edition, 86.
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category: humor, joke, philosophy, school of life, seed, soil
medium: memoir
“That’s where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. Now, I know some of you are going to say, ‘I did look it up, and that’s not true.’ That’s ’cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that’s how our nervous system works.”
Stephen Colbert
more infosource: White House Correspondents’ Dinner, 2006
category: book, comedy, gut, humor, nervous system, politics, satire, truth, White House
medium: roast
“As a kid I was the youngest member of my family, and the youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.”
Kurt Vonnegut
more infosource: A Man Without a Country (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005), 1.
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category: birth order, child, family, humor
medium: nonfiction


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