Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

Toni Morrison
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  1. A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly. - Emily Mitchell

  2. It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. - John Steinbeck

  3. It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything. - C. Joybell C.

  4. We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

  5. I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting. - Robert A. Heinlein

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