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Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
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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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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
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I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
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I can do small things in a great way.
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I can think of nothing but this engine.
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I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
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I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.
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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
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I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
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