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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.

James Thurber

For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself

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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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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