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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
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I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
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If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction.
Wolkenatlas (2008) 53 -
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
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Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
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There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917) -
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
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