"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

Satire, Humor, Irony, Belief, Manipulation

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"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

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"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."

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