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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what…
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to…
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision…
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling…
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When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.
— George Carlin
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead…
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Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look…
— Unknown Author
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Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more…
— Isla Fisher
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AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the…
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead…
— Jack Handey
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Here's a good joke to do during an earthquake: straddle a big crack in the ground, and if it opened wider, go…
— Jack Handey
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The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.
— Julius Charles Hare
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I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I…
— Jack Handey
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If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix…
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