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But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted f

But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted from a book like plums from a pudding. – Beatrix, “What to Read,” The Household, supplement to Michigan Farmer and State

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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. – George Saintsbury

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Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality. – Kyle Chandler

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The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life. – Ray Romano

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Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor. – Frank Sonnenberg

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