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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

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Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

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A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 4th, 1883

Died: March 25th, 1969

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