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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. -- William Hazlitt
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know. -- Emmett Kelly
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. -- George Eliot
Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up. -- Terry Pratchett
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity. -- Joseph Addison
Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones. -- William Sloane Coffin
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge -- Albert Bandura
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity. -- Kedar Joshi
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character. -- Bill Hybels
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct. -- Mark Twain
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same. -- Rachel Joyce
I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home. -- Ben Affleck
The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes. -- Dan Brown
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power. -- George Will
What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-of-age narrative. Telling a love story that's also a monster story. Mixing up superhero tropes with your monster tropes. I like category confusion. -- Kelly Link
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation. -- Robert Mankoff
Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of Lower East Side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles. Ira had a kid brother who wore stiff high collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls. -- Yip Harburg
I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there. -- Dick Cavett
I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one. -- Anne Fadiman
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

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