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"Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."
Age
"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."
Chance
"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
Animals
"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
Reading
"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
Film
"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."
Work
"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."
Art
"Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business."
Business
"If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings."
Character
"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
Birds
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