<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546653" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Being Funny</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My second choice is being funny, <br>my first is being sweet, <br>if not as treacle or as honey<br>at least as sugar beet, <br>but since more naturally I'm sour, <br>with sweetness not my style, <br>I'll try to make you laugh, not glower, <br>and swallow all your bile, <br>by being funny, if I can, <br>for if you laugh you may<br>believe that I'm the sweetest man<br>you've met, at least today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roy Blount Jr. ('Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story, ' Alfred A. Knopf,1998) says: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Woody Allen once told an interviewer that being funny 'is always a second choice.' The first choice, I guess, is being.....sweet. Or happy, or something.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6/10/98 </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546653" data-title="Being Funny de Gershon Hepner" data-description="My second choice is being funny, my first is being sweet, if not as treacle or as honey at least as sugar beet, but since more naturally I'm sour, with sweetness not my style, I'll try to make you laugh, not glower, and swallow all your bile..."></div> </div> </div>

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