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Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
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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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp

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