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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."
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"Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been."
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"It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research."
Fun
"I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations."
People
"There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it."
People
"It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed."
People
"I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing."
Writing
"Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake."
Art
"You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect."
People
"Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage."
Courage
"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
Events
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