Quote by Calvin Trillin
With humor, its so subjective that trying to think of what the ide

With humor, its so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. – Calvin Trillin

Other quotes by Calvin Trillin

We all know funny people who cant get it down on the page – even funny writers who cant get it down on the page. – Calvin Trillin

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funny
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people theyre trying to keep out. – Calvin Trillin

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Food
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you cant get rid of. – Calvin Trillin

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funny
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. – William Howard Taft

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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby

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Humor

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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Humor

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. – Eric Sevareid

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Humor

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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. – Henry A. Kissinger

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A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. – Kurt Huber

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Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. – James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. – Bertrand Russell

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