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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

~James Thurber

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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

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Don't get it right, just get it written.

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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 8th, 1894

Died: November 2nd, 1961

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