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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman."

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Lin Yutang Writer
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"I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom."

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
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"A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing."

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Greil Marcus Music Critic
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"If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him."

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Sinclair Lewis Novelist
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"There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble."

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