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"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it." -
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Top 5 quotes from E.B. White
"Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man."
"I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day."
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."
"Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men."
Top 5 quotes from Humor
"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
"In the end, everything is a gag."
"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
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