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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw 
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
David Lodge
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
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In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.
Anonymous
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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