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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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  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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  What a sad business, being funny.
 
(Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), British actor, screenwriter, director. Terry (Claire Bloom), Limelight, to Calvero (Charles Chaplin) after he tells her of his downfall in show business (1952).)
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  It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife

 
(Unknown. I Eat My Peas with Honey (l. 3-4). . . New Treasury of Children's Poetry, A; Old Favorites and New Discoveries. Joanna Cole, comp. (1984) Doubleday & Company.)
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  That's funny. That plane's dustin' crops where they ain't no crops.
 
(Ernest Lehman (b.1920), U.S. screenwriter. Alfred Hitchcock. Man on highway (uncredited), North by Northwest, comment to Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant), as the two men wait alone on an open stretch of highway (1959). Line of dialogue allegedly written by Hitchcock.)
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  It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddie them on a screen.
 
(Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter. Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), A Clockwork Orange, as he is forced to view violent films in an attempt to cure him of criminal behavior (1971).)
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  we carry home as prizes
Funny bugs, of handy sizes,
Just to give the day a scientific tone.

 
(Charles Edward Carryl (1841-1920), U.S. poet. Davy and the Goblin (l. 40-42). . . Poems to Read Aloud. Edward Hodnett, ed. (Rev. ed., 1967) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
 
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (1921). The He-Ancient, in Back to Methuselah, "As Far as Thought Can Reach," The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 5, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972).)
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  I don't so much write as I roar; a Newtechnique/vurry funny after WRITING.
 
(Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Letter, June 18, 1941, to his U.S. publisher, James Laughlin. quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character, pt. 2, ch. 13 (1988). Remarking on his wartime broadcasts from Rome.)
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  with my bare finger and my funny feet,
doing the undoing dance ...

 
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Wedding Ring Dance.")
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