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The word funny is a bit like the word love - we dont have enough w

The word funny is a bit like the word love – we dont have enough words to describe the many varieties. – George Saunders

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The cool parts – the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as the Vegas of the Middle East or the Venice of the Middle East or the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert – have been built in the last ten years. – George Saunders

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cool
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George Saunders
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If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere, too. – George Saunders

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positive
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George Saunders
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When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. – Mo Rocca

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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. Its not very funny, but its sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Back in the 70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was The Bad News Bears, and that was a kids movie, but I dont think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids. – Jack Black

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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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