"Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on."
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"Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule"
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"Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination."
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"I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom."
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"Hemingway was a jerk."
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"Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out."
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"I never worry that all hell will break loose. My concern is that only part of hell will break loose and be much harder to detect."
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"Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor."
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"He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals."
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"I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor."
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"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."
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"He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally."
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"A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused."
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"I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope."
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"The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight."
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"Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it."
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"There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do."
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"A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!"
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"He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand."
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"Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like." And also it's beyond escapism, its entertainment and art as such can elevate the species. The entertainer supposedly is the muse. They're the ones who tell you what is wrong with society in a humorous way. They're the ones who do an expose about this or a documentary about that about the injustice of this. So it can be a very powerful medium."
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