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
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More quotes by James Thurber
- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- 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.
- Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?