"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
-James Thurber
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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 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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"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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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
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