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"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."

"We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?"

"Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks."

"If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward."

"What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter."
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"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."

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."

"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."

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
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