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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. – James Thurber

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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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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber

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Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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We have the ability to survive anything except ourselves. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. – Henry David Thoreau

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Fascism is capitalism plus murder. – Upton Sinclair

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