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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. (Castellaneta Dan)
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. (Castellaneta Dan)
The secret to humor is surprise. (Castellaneta Dan)
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. (Castellaneta Dan)
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. (Castellaneta Dan)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road. (Castellaneta Dan)
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. (Castellaneta Dan)
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor is just another defense against the universe. (Castellaneta Dan)
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. (Castellaneta Dan)
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. (Castellaneta Dan)
Comedy is a tragedy plus time. (Castellaneta Dan)
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. (Castellaneta Dan)
In the end, everything is a gag. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law. (Castellaneta Dan)
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. (Castellaneta Dan)
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. (Castellaneta Dan)
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. (Castellaneta Dan)
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. (Castellaneta Dan)
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. (Castellaneta Dan)
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. (Castellaneta Dan)
There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it. (Castellaneta Dan)
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. (Castellaneta Dan)
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. (Castellaneta Dan)
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. (Castellaneta Dan)
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