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"I sat before my typewriter and the great awful void descended, and I beat my head with my fists, put a pillow under my aching buttocks and made little noises of agony."

— John Fante

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"All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthp…"

— Walt Disney

Entertainment1901–1966

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"Corn Pop was a bad dude, and he ran with a bunch of bad boys."

— Joe Biden

Politics1942

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"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure."

— Ernest Hemingway

Literature1899–1961

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