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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.
(Tennessee Williams (1914-1983), U.S. dramatist. Self-interview, in Observer (London, April 7, 1957).)
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Buttons: Clowns are funny people, Holly. They only love once.
Holly: All men aren't like that, even if they act like clowns.
(Fredric M. Frank (1911-1977), U.S. screenwriter, Barre Lyndon (1896-1972), British, and Theodore St. John (1907-1956), U.S. screenwriter. Buttons (James Stewart), Holly (Betty Hutton), The Greatest Show On Earth (1952).)
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This funny thing called love.
(Cole Porter (1893-1964), U.S. songwriter. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" Wake Up and Dream, Harms, Inc. (1929).
Music composed by Jerome Kern (1885-1945).)
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And then I met a woman—now comes the funny
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With eyes that petrified my brain, and sunk into my heart.
(Hugh Antoine D'Arcy (1843-1925), French-British poet. The Face upon the Floor (l. 39-40).
FaBoBe. Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.)
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Funny ain't it. Here I am worrying about a woman. Men don't worry much about women when they're around. But when it gets way off from home like we are now, and where he knows he's going a lot further away ... I mean that's when a woman gets workin' in your mind. You reckon you're a fool for not noticin' before how, how big a part of things they be. There ain't nothin' like seein' a woman's face.
(Dudley Nichols (1895-1960), U.S. screenwriter, and Howard Hawks. Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas), The Big Sky, expressing his thoughts about women (1952).
From The Novel by A.P. Gu.)
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
(Quentin Crisp (b. 1908), British author. The Naked Civil Servant, ch. 18 (1968).)
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1906). Dr. Colenso Ridgeon, in The Doctor's Dilemma, act 5, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).)
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This youngest of the arts is also the most heavily burdened with memory. Cinema is a time machine. Movies preserve the past, while theatres—no matter how devoted to the classics, to old plays—can only "modernize." Movies resurrect the beautiful dead; present, intact, vanished or ruined environments; embody without irony styles and fashions that seem funny today.... Films age (being objects) as no theatre event does (being always new).
(Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. "Theatre and Film," Styles of Radical Will, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1969).)
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