"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
"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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Source: James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”
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