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«There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.»
«A humorist is a man who feels bad but feels good about it»
«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.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
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Humor
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«The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.»
«There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you»
«HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. --Alexander Poke»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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humorist, humorists, medical, the humorist
«Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.»
«It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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burden, congressmen, critics, humorists, missionaries, the humorist
«It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.»
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