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Penelope Gilliatt Inspirational Quotes (7)

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A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
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The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.
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Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.
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jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.
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It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
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People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.
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[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.
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