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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - V

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. – Virginia Woolf

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Money
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. – James Thurber

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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. – Manuel Puig

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Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldnt normally try. – Melinda Clarke

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I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but its never at the expense of the other guy. – Bob Uecker

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It takes vision and courage to create – it takes faith and courage to prove. – Owen D. Young

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an deaths the other. – Tennessee Williams

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Thats how you get a performance – they put trust in you. – Richard Donner

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