"The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way."

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Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

Wilfrid Sheed

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“The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.”
“Have fun do good and the money will come”
“Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.”
“Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.”
“Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?”
“One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.”
“I love my fans so much! I know I say it all the time, but I really appreciate all the things they have done for me.”
“You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.”

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