“Somewhere, very close, the laugh that wasn't laughter.
He never saw Molly again.”
Neuromancer (1984)
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“The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.”
Angela Carter book Nights at the Circus
Source: Nights at the Circus
Christopher Walken (1943) American actor
Jan Moir (March 11, 2002) "'You're not scared of me, are you?': Christopher Walken has cornered the market in movie menace. But, as Jan Moir discovers, he is just as unsettling in real life", The Daily Telegraph, p. 18.
“Laugh at death and die of laughter.”
Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter
Attributed
“He seems to me to be equal to a god, he, if it may be, seems to surpass the very gods, who sitting opposite thee again and again gazes at thee and hears thee sweetly laughing.”
Ille mi par esse Deo videtur,
ille, si fas est, superare Divos,
qui sedens adversus identidem te
spectat et audit
dulce ridentem.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LI, lines 1–5. Cf. Sappho 31.
Carmina
“Our hero came from Nowhere — he wasn't going Anywhere and he got kicked off Somewhere.”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
The High Sign (1921, co-written with Edward F. Cline)