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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audien...more

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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

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I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many...more

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In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inco...more

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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

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You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was...more