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" Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. "

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" The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. "

" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "

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" My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. "

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" Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. "

" I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. "

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" Gags die, humor doesn't. "

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" When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. "

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" You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain. "

" Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. "

" I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. "

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" I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. "

" All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. "

" Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. "

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" Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor. "

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