"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.“

-James Thurber

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"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."

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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."

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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."

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"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

-Willa Cather

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

-Tom Stoppard

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

-Bertrand Russell

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

-Robert Browning

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

-Albert Einstein

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."

-Marshall McLuhan