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Quote by George Orwell
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custar

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. – George Orwell

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

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Jealousy
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George Orwell
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War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. – George Orwell

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War
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Everything seems fine until youre about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, its a funny thing, but Im an exception to that rule. – Martin Amis

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I dont think my judgment is that good. I dont know what is funny. – Jerry Stiller

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Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking Can women be funny? People still ask that. Its like asking: Can women breathe in and out? – Julie Walters

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I took P.S. I Love You thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film. – Hilary Swank

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I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldnt do them. And I dont want to screw them by not portraying them honestly. – Kyra Sedgwick

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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But Im past that age. – Katharine Hepburn

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Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. – Richard Cardinal Cushing

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I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York Im recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris its not as commonplace to be recognized. – Marc Jacobs

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