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James Thurber Cartoonist, Author
Humor

"The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Humor

"Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement."

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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Humor

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
Humor

"As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style."

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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
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"I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection..."

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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity."

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