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(Click for frequent words.) 69 anecdotes 66 amusing anecdote 59 amusing anecdotes 56 humorous anecdote 55 apocryphal tale 55 quip 54 factoid 54 possibly apocryphal 53 recollections 53 reminiscence 53 tidbit 53 aphorism 52 reminiscences 51 astute observation 51 analogy 50 apocryphal 50 story 50 digression 49 tales 49 disquisition 49 hazy recollections 49 remark 48 parable 48 vignette 48 witticism 48 literary allusion 48 self deprecating humor 48 quote 48 epigram 47 offhandedly 47 tale 47 boozy carousing 47 apocryphal story 47 Wryly 47 homespun wisdom 47 postscript 47 converation 47 interesting tidbit 47 excursus 47 bon mot 46 witty self deprecating 46 knee slapper 46 rambling incoherent 46 non sequitur 46 authorial voice 46 autobiographical essay 46 humorously 46 book Outliers 46 fond reminiscence 45 fable 45 simile 45 humorous anecdotes 45 exegeses 45 stories 45 soliloquy 45 Doonesbury cartoon 45 joke 45 pithy quotes 45 recollection 45 amusingly 45 humorous 45 epigraph 45 verbal tic 45 narrative 44 poignantly 44 Yogi isms 44 essay 44 conversation 44 wry observation 44 rhyming verse 44 analogies 44 titbit 44 Colacello 44 wisecrack 44 Freudian slips 44 trivia tidbits 44 unintentionally humorous 44 pithy quote 44 quips 44 hearty chuckle 44 trope 44 soundbyte 44 conceit 44 offhand 44 aperçu 44 puckishly 44 excerpt 44 factoids 43 jokes 43 waxing rhapsodic 43 afterword 43 proverbs 43 Biblical allusions 43 musings 43 humorous asides 43 witty asides 43 locution 43 rhyming poem 43 apercus 43 snippet 43 Mireille Silcoff 43 counterexample 43 bracingly honest 43 reminisces 43 observational humor 43 drollery 43 hearty laugh 43 wryly 43 doggerel 43 ponderings 43 splenetic 43 bons mots 43 Brookhiser 43 cornball jokes 42 deprecating humor 42 evocative prose 42 précis 42 disarmingly frank 42 ditty 42 poetic prose 42 tall tales 42 reminiscing 42 unworldliness 42 philosophical musings 42 amusing 42 fables 42 malapropism 42 metaphor 42 slyly 42 sarcastic quip 42 philosophising 42 phrase 42 digressions 42 irony 42 Brutally honest 42 Melville Moby Dick 42 acquaintance 42 hilarious anecdotes 42 Buy Charles Memminger 42 self deprecating 42 literary allusions 42 Shakespearean sonnet 42 Falsani 42 author Malcolm Gladwell 42 subplot 42 erudite 42 heartfelt eulogy 42 quotable quote 42 declarative sentences 42 rephrases 42 jocular tone 42 flashback 42 pithy observations 42 backstory 42 overheard conversation 42 insightfully 42 recounting 41 metanarrative 41 argument 41 philosophical musing 41 banter 41 ruminations 41 spiel 41 Zailckas 41 collective nouns 41 Von Tunzelmann 41 immensely readable 41 declarative sentence 41 Roiphe 41 sneering condescension 41 monologue 41 clichs 41 Rechy 41 humorist PJ O'Rourke 41 precis 41 Hockey Sweater 41 Scoblic 41 lilting accent 41 levity 41 florid prose 41 Shakespeare sonnet 41 aphorist 41 archly 41 poem 41 unabashedly sentimental 41 oft quoted 41 self deprecatory humor 41 Finders keepers losers weepers 41 syllogism 41 aperçus 41 misquotes 41 conversational gambit 41 breathless prose 41 fictionalized autobiography 41 hoary cliche 41 mordantly 41 wry wit 41 metaphors 41 autobiographically 41 Maraniss 41 platitude 41 interviewee 41 incredulousness 41 tidbits 41 aphorisms 41 sarcasms 41 Maupassant 41 unattributed quote 41 Maharidge 41 Janny Scott 41 Ribowsky 41 sob story 41 THE SCRAPBOOK 41 retelling 41 incongruity 41 biography 41 Yogi ism 41 Wildean 41 loquaciousness 41 chuckle 41 disarmingly candid 41 Ved Mehta 41 impish humor 41 diary entries 41 childhood memories 41 self deprecation 41 redneck jokes 41 paraphrase 41 hilariously 41 self depricating 40 dryly 40 biographer Robert Skidelsky 40 stemwinder 40 naïvety 40 unflinching candor 40 Daily Howler 40 unreliable narrator 40 epilogue 40 sarcastic tone 40 unflinchingly honest 40 epistle 40 witty retort 40 Flashman novels 40 paraphrases 40 Safran Foer 40 Anecdotes 40 paraphrased quote 40 jape 40 Self deprecating 40 zinger 40 rambling monologue 40 riff 40 biographer Walter Isaacson 40 recites poetry 40 tangent 40 absurdity 40 factual inaccuracy 40 Yiddishisms 40 Leebaert 40 treatise 40 refreshingly candid 40 professorial tone 40 apocrypha 40 shoptalk 40 entertainingly 40 truisms 40 Bright Sided 40 journalese 40 paean 40 narratives 40 Cherrie disappearance 40 thoughful 40 juxtaposition 40 MacCambridge 40 Doc Sportello 40 oft repeated 40 malapropisms 40 laughs heartily 40 apocryphally 40 dry wit 40 autobiographical 40 terseness 40 autobiographer 40 tid bit 40 preface 40 willful delusion 40 eulogistic 40 sexploits 40 Basbanes 40 Obmascik 40 pithy sayings 40 soliloquies 40 sportswriter Mitch Albom 40 eloquently 40 descriptive passages 40 narration 40 anecdotage 40 pricelessly 40 urbane wit 40 interesting tidbits 40 omniscient narrator 40 Gevisser 40 paraphrasing 40 wry smile 40 clever quips 40 quoted Wang Xingang 40 Huneven 40 malaprops 40 waxes philosophical 40 mirthfully 40 Yeats poem 40 trenchant observations 40 inane ramblings 40 ineloquent 40 truism 40 self deprecatingly 40 Bob Somerby 40 snippets 40 HL Menken 40 intellectual pretensions 40 biblical proverb 40 engaging conversationalist 40 Fadiman 40 poignant 40 interviewer 39 engagingly 39 gnomic utterances 39 memoir 39 nugget 39 Hilzoy 39 encomium 39 vague recollections 39 lovable rascal 39 Louvish 39 nonanswer 39 readable prose 39 comic interludes 39 epigrams 39 alcoholic womanizer 39 ode 39 idiosyncrasy 39 spoonerisms 39 waxes nostalgic 39 Todd Purdum 39 plainspokenness 39 anecdotal 39 witty erudite 39 unfunny jokes 39 memorably 39 pithiness 39 proverb 39 neologism 39 fatherly wisdom 39 delightfully witty 39 maxim 39 recountings 39 deadpan wit 39 conversational prose 39 cliché 39 laughs uproariously 39 patronizingly 39 Lo bama instead 39 observations 39 curtness 39 parables 39 historical analogies 39 alliterations 39 Freudian slip 39 effervescently 39 favorite sayings 39 succint 39 consummate storyteller 39 Slezkine 39 bleg 39 arguer 39 unquotable 39 monolog 39 armchair psychoanalysis 39 droll humor 39 Unintentionally 39 blurb 39 disarming candor 39 belly laugh 39 refreshing candor 39 diatribe 39 TODAY 'S JOKE 39 parenthetically 39 caustic wit 39 bromidic 39 statistic 39 quotable quotes 39 epiphanic 39 vignettes 39 rant 39 biographical 39 succinct summary 39 dirty limericks 39 Henny Youngman 39 Midwestern drawl 39 ironies 39 Donvan 39 lucid prose 39 billet doux 39 pure serendipity 39 parlor trick 39 peccadillo 39 simple declarative sentences 39 peregrinations 39 homo eroticism 39 conversational fillers 39 jeu d' esprit 39 namedropping 39 endnote 39 Hemingwayesque 39 etymology 39 pithy 39 putdown 39 sarcastic retort 39 article 39 erudite playful 39 jocularity 39 self deprecating wit 39 Jacques Barzun 39 apt summation 39 ripping yarn 39 strawman argument 39 voiceover narration 39 Kurt Gödel 39 Fanny Burney 39 prose stylist 39 cliche 39 Roman orator Cicero 39 tapes Knocke 39 porkie 39 Hiassen 39 sardonic humor 39 writes movingly 39 non sequitor 39 disquisitions 39 forgetting Zeidenberg 39 ironic juxtaposition 39 witty quip 39 wax rhapsodic 39 axiom 39 groaner 39 narrator 39 humorous vignettes 39 descriptive prose 39 trenchant observation 39 snidely 39 apologia 39 coda 39 lore 39 misquote 39 casually 39 insouciant charm 39 apocryphal quote 39 feelingly 38 Emma Brockes 38 unbridled glee 38 astute observations 38 digresses 38 Anthologist 38 hagiography 38 peroration 38 novelist Saul Bellow 38 admonition 38 Sports Illustrated Joe Posnanski 38 Sexual Personae 38 witticisms 38 poet Archibald MacLeish 38 uproarious laughter 38 glancingly 38 folksy drawl 38 Seinfeldian 38 vino veritas 38 dubiousness 38 autobiography 38 panegyric 38 Lipsyte 38 crying jag 38 poesy 38 snideness 38 non sequiturs 38 quatrain 38 adages 38 maxims 38 eloquence 38 incoherent rambling 38 insightful 38 folksy wisdom 38 jocular 38 naivete 38 Slate William Saletan 38 Wieseltier 38 Leo Rosten 38 raconteur 38 coversation 38 misremembered 38 Sally Bedell 38 disparaging remark 38 tellings 38 musing 38 paradox 38 wry witty 38 Zen koan 38 famous aphorism 38 brutal honesty 38 Icelandic sagas 38 punchline 38 paraphrased 38 Gladwell 38 cantankerousness 38 Gamarekian 38 George WS Trow 38 Tom Scocca 38 snide remark 38 parenthetical 38 NPR Jacki Lyden 38 Gopnik 38 eminently believable 38 footnoting 38 Camera Lucida 38 Pausch lecture 38 self deprecating remark 38 Kipling poem 38 Mischievously 38 friend 38 Mirengoff 38 glibness 38 facetiousness 38 converstation 38 eloquent 38 perceptiveness 38 biblical parables 38 interesting sidelight 38 worldly wisdom 38 poignance 38 witty insightful 38 overwrought prose 38 humor 38 eminently quotable 38 interlude 38 approvingly quotes 38 laughingly 38 insightfulness 38 hilarious 38 unadorned prose 38 refreshingly frank 38 blarney 38 dictum 38 witty prose 38 Ta Nehisi 38 prickliness 38 throwaway remark 38 koans 38 contemplations 38 alternating chapters 38 woolgathering 38 childlike glee 38 book 38 Trebay 38 wry humor 38 verse 38 candor 38 cuff banter 38 wryness 38 false equivalence 38 Have witticism 38 sly wink 38 prestidigitator 38 shtick 38 extemporaneously 38 Whistling Season 38 self deprecating quips 38 jeremiad 38 biblical quotations 38 interjection 38 wry asides 38 interesting factoid 38 PJ O'Rourke 38 travails 38 emotional catharsis 38 gaucherie 38 puzzlements 38 Silk Parachute 38 footnote 38 gravelly baritone 38 Aesop fable 38 sheepishness 38 Gimlette 38 piquantly 38 Yedidyah 38 roman clef 38 oddity 37 rhapsodizing 37 punchlines 37 golden nugget 37 lyric 37 unimportance 37 novelistic 37 acerbically 37 characteristic candor 37 biblical allusions 37 Sanford Socolow shared 37 wonderingly 37 Freakonomics blog 37 divertingly 37 revelatory 37 Interjecting 37 gushingly 37 utter banality 37 chatterer 37 exhaustively researched 37 witty 37 Cilizza 37 Edward Guthmann 37 speak extemporaneously 37 untruth 37 Ken Foskett 37 magic negro 37 logical fallacy 37 Justice Frankfurter 37 introductory essay 37 Herzogian 37 unpublished memoirs 37 Continetti 37 theologian Reinhold Niebuhr 37 crusty curmudgeon 37 misadventures 37 solecism 37 Walt Whitman poem 37 smutty jokes 37 Ibn Battutah 37 smiles wryly 37 Almereyda 37 laughing heartily 37 self deprecating chuckle 37 koan 37 Nixon Agonistes 37 Constance Fenimore Woolson 37 wishfulness 37 aphoristic 37 Michael Blastland 37 screamingly funny 37 Chinese proverb 37 hagiographies 37 rhetorical flourish 37 Remnick 37 side splittingly 37 effusiveness 37 Margolick 37 summation 37 Moral Disorder 37 chitchatted 37 le mot juste 37 astonishingly candid 37 decidedly unsentimental 37 Caron Freeborn 37 pithily 37 mumbler 37 thumbnail sketch 37 credulously 37 Newsweek Howard Fineman 37 garrulousness 37 autobiographical essays 37 colloquial expressions 37 bon mots 37 juicy tidbit 37 unpretentiousness 37 humourist 37 Edmund Gosse 37 blah blah blahs 37 disarming honesty 37 phrase irrational exuberance 37 self deprecating charm 37 Jacket Copy 37 foible 37 Ravelstein 37 artice 37 refreshingly honest 37 elegant prose 37 biographical sketch 37 excruciatingly embarrassing 37 humble upbringing 37 sage advice 37 Edmund Muskie Hubert Humphrey 37 literary pretensions 37 Messud 37 Paul Theroux 37 hearty laughter 37 twistedly 37 stem winder 37 Kenny Shopsin 37 Paraphrasing 37 ironist 37 unfunny joke 37 wryly humorous 37 Chuckling 37 Locker Lampson 37 chuckles 37 teacherly 37 laughs 37 oratorical skill 37 dim wittedness 37 novelist Kurt Vonnegut 37 conspiracy theory 37 humorlessness 37 extramarital dalliance 37 tapes Volpendesto seems 37 lyrical prose 37 tearfully eulogized 37 eidetic memory 37 sock puppetry 37 wonderfully readable 37 bashfulness 37 Johnny Tremain 37 Cotsonika 37 mistruth 37 epiphany 37 conspiratorial wink 37 familial dysfunction 37 oneliners 37 Shakespearean verse 37 dryly humorous 37 pep talk 37 Homo Politicus 37 question asker 37 gallows humor 37 explications 37 Kurlansky 37 endearing 37 Dilbert cartoon 37 humourous 37 sayings 37 snide 37 picaresque novel 37 puckish humor 37 Svevo 37 glib 37 Codrescu 37 morality tales 37 Malcolm Gladwell 37 Morrie Schwartz 37 waxes enthusiastic 37 illuminative 37 cautionary tale 37 unsupported assertions 37 epigraphs 37 reverie 37 conversationally 37 prissiness 37 earnestness 37 Gods Behaving Badly 37 fictionalization 37 oration 37 overhearing 37 absurdist humor 37 apocryphal tales 37 anthropomorphism 37 polysyllabic words 37 nut graf 37 syllogisms 37 Monty Python skit 37 rhapsodically 37 comically 37 spoke extemporaneously 37 Transylvanian accent 37 metonymy 37 wry 37 Sean Wilentz 37 subtext 37 mondegreen 37 meta narrative 37 droll deadpan 37 biblical exegesis 37 belabors 37 Cohodas 37 rugged outdoorsman 37 illogic 37 Nelly Bly 37 inarticulateness 37 Hillaire Belloc 37 Vanocur 37 onstage banter 37 inexactitude 36 Twilight Zone episodes 36 reverential tone 36 sagely 36 unprompted 36 Slawenski 36 Reinhold Niebuhr 36 similes 36 AJ Liebling 36 droll 36 Aww shucks 36 retells 36 edited transcript 36 de Maupassant 36 Gleefully 36 exerpt 36 muses 36 overhearing conversation 36 barely intelligible 36 Flippant 36 delphic 36 picaresque 36 Donald Barthelme 36 recites poem 36 masturbatory fantasy 36 quotable 36 Golenbock 36 Zuckoff 36 ghostwritten autobiography 36 conspiratorial whisper 36 Beatrice Goat 36 humourously 36 epistolary novel 36 exhortation 36 Stephen Pinker 36 Zoglin 36 jests 36 exegesis 36 Dead Parrot Sketch 36 plaintive wail 36 vague generalities 36 aw shucks grin 36 eminently readable 36 warped logic 36 psychoanalyzing 36 philosophizing 36 rivetingly 36 meaningless drivel 36 Oliver Sacks 36 waxed philosophical 36 humorist Mark Twain 36 poetic eloquence 36 clubgoers shouted 36 adage 36 asks incredulously 36 Lucy Grealy 36 spouting gibberish 36 diarist 36 eyeroll 36 lovable goofball 36 pompousness 36 Python sketch 36 breezily 36 metafiction 36 youthful infatuation 36 Beinhart 36 elegaic 36 autodidact 36 prose 36 sweetly nostalgic 36 Dudley Clendinen 36 AE Houseman 36 speciousness 36 journalist Matt Taibbi 36 copious footnotes 36 facts 36 Reminiscing 36 Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 36 verbatim 36 snottiness 36 Broken Window Fallacy 36 questioner 36 Talese 36 elegiac tone 36 juicy gossip 36 drolly 36 asker 36 Seinfeld episode 36 introductory paragraph 36 divrei Torah 36 repartee 36 Wordy Shipmates 36 singular verb 36 riotous laughter 36 subjunctive mood 36 Omololu Ogunmade 36 mawkish sentimentality 36 Markandaya 36 eureka moment 36 wistful 36 attraction repulsion 36 congenital liar 36 maundering 36 Uncle Remus tales 36 Timesman 36 tattler 36 myth 36 included Aesop Lancelot 36 Joyce Ulysses 36 enlightening 36 kidder 36 incoherent ramblings 36 Elizabethan playwright 36 poetic verse 36 wistfully 36 Hamlet soliloquy 36 stingingly 36 wittily 36 Prechter Perspective 36 etymological 36 inveterate optimist 36 insubstantiality 36 novelist Charles Dickens 36 lightheartedly 36 Sheila Rowbotham 36 Rick Perlstein Nixonland 36 verrrrry 36 charmingly self deprecating 36 Brontë sisters 36 elliptically 36 sketchiness 36 Eighteenth Brumaire 36 Urdu couplets 36 Vendler 36 Chuang Tzu 36 biographer 36 Michelle Rochon 36 incoherent rant 36 unpublished autobiography 36 biographically 36 aristocratic upbringing 36 obit 36 laughs hysterically 36 self mythologizing 36 profundities 36 sexual peccadilloes 36 preacher cadence 36 eloquent prose 36 couplet 36 wordier 36 nonsequitur 36 Persian proverb 36 Vanna Speaks 36 poignancy 36 compendious 36 unerring ear 36 vampire mythology 36 unerring knack 36 Tangentially 36 Leon Festinger 36 experiences 36 reminisced 36 succinctly 36 Nagourney 36 Rudyard Kipling poem 36 soundbite 36 Dr Pangloss 36 mangled syntax 36 soberingly 36 poetically 36 whimsy 36 Barnaby Rudge 36 endless fascination 36 redneck stereotypes 36 scholarly tome 36 gibe 36 Goldengrove 36 self deprecatory 36 thick Southern drawl 36 throughline 36 candidness 36 impenetrable dialect 36 Errol Morris documentary 36 joking 36 Mlodinow 36 gobbets 36 autobiographical monologue 36 charmingly 36 winded explanations 36 Screwie 36 absorbingly 36 wisdom 36 Time James Poniewozik 36 travelogue 36 Katharine Seelye 36 insouciance 36 sound byte 36 impertinent 36 bittersweet ode 36 LeCarre 36 curiousness 36 Josipovici 36 rapier sharp 36 counterexamples 36 Wistfully 36 segues 36 throaty chuckle 36 WF Deedes 36 Aunt Harriet 36 deathly boring 36 blackface minstrel 36 soaringly 36 formidably intelligent 36 jacket blurb