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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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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Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. – James Thurber

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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Having leveled my palace, dont erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. – Emily Bronte

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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. – Miriam Makeba

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In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak. – Dane Cook

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If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. – Samuel Johnson, quoted in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Joh

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Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe. – Richard Curtis

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The packaging for a microwavable “microwave” dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries. – David Wann, Buzzworm, November 1990

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