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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. - Robertson Davi

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. – Robertson Davies

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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. – Robertson Davies

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diet
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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. – Robertson Davies

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Pornography
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. – Carrie Brownstein

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Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. Its a pretty easy audience, and thats been around for ages. – Selma Blair

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Humor

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. – Robert Morgan

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Humor

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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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. – E. M. Forster

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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say – and they want you to hear it. – Anna Deavere Smith

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