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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- 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.
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