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"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
"Don't take life too seriously - learn to laugh at yourself."
"Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it."
"The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree."
"Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful."
"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."
Explore more quotes by James Thurber
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."
"The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road."
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