"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
-James Thurber
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"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."
-James Thurber
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"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
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"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."
-James Thurber
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"The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."
-James Thurber
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"Love is what you've been through with somebody."
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
-Calvin Trillin
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"Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling."
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"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others."
-Lucretius
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"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
-Margaret Fuller
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