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Quote by Erma Bombeck
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. Its litera

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. Its literary suicide. – Erma Bombeck

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Im trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. – Erma Bombeck

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Youth
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Erma Bombeck
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. – Erma Bombeck

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communication
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Comedy
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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. – Angela Carter

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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. – George Jean Nathan

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Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. – Paul Goodman

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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets. – Proverb

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