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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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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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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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Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
(Ronald Knox (1888-1957), British scholar, priest. Essays In Satire, introduction (1928).)
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A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
(Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), U.S. Democratic politician. speech, Dec. 13, 1952, Washington D.C.. Quoted in Portrait: Adlai E. Stevenson, ch. 1, Alden Whitman (1965).
After his defeat in the Presidential election, in which Eisenhower won a landslide victory.)
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My mother—preferring the strange to the tame:
Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung,
Frog's belly distended with funny young,
(Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925), U.S. poet. The Intruder (l. 1-3). . .
Introduction to Poetry, An. X. J. Kennedy, ed. (6th ed., 1986) Little, Brown & Company.)
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Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.
(Dorothy Fields (1904-1974), U.S. songwriter. "I'm in the Mood for Love," Every Night at Eight, Robbins Music Corp. (1935).
Music composed by Jimmy McHugh (1894-1969).)
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