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Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they dont call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. – William Collins

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I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the readers defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. – William Collins

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I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things it makes a character much more three-dimensional if theres some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that. – Colm Meaney

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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. – Jonathan Swift

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When a chick has a sense of humor, theres nothing more attractive. – Dylan OBrien

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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. – Christopher Morley

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