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If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill whats funny in

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill whats funny in the joke. – Richard Russo

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I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comics best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what hes doing is easy is an occupational hazard. – Richard Russo

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Movies have to handle time very efficiently. Theyre about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels arent necessarily about that. – Richard Russo

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My books are elegiac in the sense that theyre odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. – Richard Russo

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I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldnt give my lyrics, and its all wrong in the book, and I giggle. Its funny. – Jonathan Davis

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California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange. – Fred Allen

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