"I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what ***** is to erotic language in a good novel."

-- James C Humes

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“My dad and I collaborate on the artwork. He does all of the design and layout. He uses my sketches and drawings or weird things to mix into it or put on the merch.”
“Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.”
“The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.”
“What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.”
“In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.”
“If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.”
“Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.”
“I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.”

Source : Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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