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"Discussion in America means dissent."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."
"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
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"Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost."
"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."
"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
"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."
"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
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