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Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of
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“The fact that the government is allowed to steal my money and incarcerate me if I don't comply, so that they can use if for whatever it feels like-like a good-for-nothing study, or an anti-vaping campaign, or a war-is infuriating. They take our money to spend on wars that they lie to us about, and then gaslight us whenever we happen to notice that they've been lying, and then they do it again.”
― You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together
― You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together
“Hearing something awful can suck, but the best answer to speech you don't like is always to respond to it with...your own speech.”
― You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together
― You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together
“Plus, there's this: Without forgiveness, comedy just can't exist. Mistakes are inevitable when it comes to comedy.”
― You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together
― You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together
“It was a big room, full of books. The books did not confine themselves to the bookcases that reached up to the ceiling. They were on chairs and tables and even on the floor. And yet there was no sense of disarray about them.”
― Crooked House
― Crooked House
“If we condition our culture to believe that any joke that upsets any person demands a groveling, on-the-floor apology, then we are going to get exactly what we asked for-fewer jokes, less honesty, and a really unforgivingly low fuckup threshold for ourselves.
Also, if what you're looking for from an apology is for people to actually forgive you, then you might be extremely disappointed.”
― You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together
Also, if what you're looking for from an apology is for people to actually forgive you, then you might be extremely disappointed.”
― You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together
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