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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.

Alan Alda

For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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Get Investment Live Mean Scrupulously Small Spent Sure Teen
I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Certain Murder Play Republican Think
Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Instant Just Mind State
If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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Being During Like Nominate Show Theatre Until Win
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Alien Body Kid Leave Thirteen Turn Until Twenty
I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Create Impression Interest Myself Some Try
What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Anger Use Useful Work
It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Beak Rare Susceptible Tend Understanding Unexpected Upset Virus
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Like Movie Play Propaganda Really Service
I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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Always Combine Experiment Figure Found Happen House Interest Thing Together
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Before Father Mother Oddness Shown Sign Six Stab Until
Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Almost Everybody Get Know Nickname Tag Well
A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Almost Frustration Know Long Painful Pleasurable Sweet Teasingly
I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Any More Much Part Really Size Worry
The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Between Difference Fluid Listen Live Pretend Rigid Stuff

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.

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