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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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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustnt get serious with people. They dont expect it from you, and they dont want to see it. Youre not entitled to be serious, youre a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh. – Fanny Brice

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A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. – John Ratzenberger

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Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and theyre short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. – Sergio Aragones

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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. – Adam Smith

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