Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist,...
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'You, madam, are the eternal humorist, The eternal enemy of the absolute, Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!...'
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The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
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A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.
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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies him...
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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