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Quote by Dorothy Parker
Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with wor

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss. – Dorothy Parker

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Love :: Kisses
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Dorothy Parker
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He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. – Dorothy Parker

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Office
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isnt. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. – Horace Walpole

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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic. – Barbet Schroeder

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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If its in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it. – Ivan Reitman

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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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And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter. – Frederick Sanger

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