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“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at...” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“The increasing seriousness of things, then that's the great opportunity of jokes.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening — all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn’t one big joke.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone’s.” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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