Quote by James Thurber
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so impor

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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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Im 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, Id only be 48. Thats the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. – James Thurber

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Its easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but theyre all at home. In basketball, theyre on the road all the time. – Khloe Kardashian

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I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but Ive been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. Ive tried to do landscapes a few times. – Michelle Pfeiffer

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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. – Jeremy Taylor

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