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Quote by James Thurber
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. – James Thurber

Other quotes by James Thurber

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber

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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders. – Harold Abelson

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Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe its because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly dont know. – Emmett Kelly

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Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor. – Margaret Cho

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Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play Girl Talk to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around. – Carrie Preston

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. – Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942

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