“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
Other James Thurber Quotes
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.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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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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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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