4,324 Quotes About Fun


  • Author Holly Black
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    She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.

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  • Author Howard Bloom
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    Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

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  • Author Ian Bogost
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    Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."

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  • Author Ian Bogost
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    When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

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  • Author Ian Bogost
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    Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

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  • Author Ian Bogost
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    We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

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  • Author Ian Bogost
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    The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.

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