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- -"What book are you reading ?"
- -"'Das Kapital' by Carl May."
- -"Carl May didn't write that book, it was Karl Marx."
- -"Really ? That's why there aren't any cowboys anywhere."
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- Two authors were chatting:
- -"You can't understand how popular my poems are these last period.
- Last year the number of readers even doubled."
- -"Oh, congratulations, I didn't know you got married."
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- The young man wanted to have a book he had written published, and so he
- sent the script to a publishing house. Soon a man called him back, asking:
- -"Did maybe anyone threaten to kill you, if you didn't write this book ?"
- -"Oh no, certainly not."
- -"Then, you don't have any excuse."
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- A fairly unknown author arrived to a broadcasting station to be interviewed
- on TV. While passing the gates a guard asked him:
- -"Excuse me, sir, what's inside your bag ?"
- Being tired, the author answers, more arrogantly than joking:
- -"A foldable machine gun."
- -"Oh, it's OK then", the guard said, "I thought it was some of your books."
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- -"I'm writing my memoirs", the politician told one of his collegues, "but
- there are some details in it I wouldn't like people to get to know about,
- so it won't be published while I'm alive."
- -"Really ? I can hardly wait to read it."
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- Two authors met:
- -"What are you writing now ?"
- -"My memoirs"
- -"Do you happen to have written about that day I lent you 50 quid?
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