Rajinikanth (1950) Indian actor
Raja Bahadur, his friend
You can see God in him at times (22 December 1999)
“All of Creation’s a farce.
Man was born as a joke.
In his head his reason is buffeted
Like wind-blown smoke.
Life is a game.
Everyone ridicules everyone else.
But he who has the last laugh
Laughs longest.”
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Man was born as a joke.
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Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
canular refers to hoaxes, humorous deceptions.
The Paris Review interview (1984)
Context: You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him and made this world — which is why it doesn’t work. I don’t share this heresy. I’m too afraid! But I put it in a play called This Extraordinary Brothel, in which the protagonist doesn’t talk at all. There is a revolution, everybody kills everybody else, and he doesn’t understand. But at the very end, he speaks for the first time. He points his finger towards the sky and shakes it at God, saying, “You rogue! You little rogue!” and he bursts out laughing. He understands that the world is an enormous farce, a canular played by God against man, and that he has to play God’s game and laugh about it.
“He who laughs last may be the joke.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.”
Jean Renoir (1894–1979) French film director and screenwriter
Variant: The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Boys; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar
context (16) "Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere: Calypso (stanzas 2, 5, and 7) <!-- [Italics in source] -->
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Context: Watching their sets in a kind of trance
were people in Mexico, people in France.
They don't chase Jones but the dreams are the same —
Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that's the right name!
Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout,
A gadget on the set makes them look like you. When the Everywhere couple crack a joke
It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk.
When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose
It's the with-it view as everyone knows.
It may be a rumor or it may be true
But a gadget on the set has it said by you! "What do you think about Yatakang?"
"I think the same as the Everywhere gang."
"What do you think of Beninia then?"
"The Everywheres will tell me but I don't know when."
Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.
“He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.”
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“He laughs best who laughs last.”
John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) English architect and dramatist
The Country House, Act II, sc. v (1706)