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When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Bill Mauldin

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Bill Mauldin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 29
Died: 2003
Died: January 22
Actor
Caricaturist
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Journalist
School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago
Screenwriter
Mountain Park
New Mexico
William Mauldin
William Henry Mauldin
Children
Aren
Really
Realize
Laughing
Humor
Realizing
Grinning
Hurt
Satire
Understand
Misery
Given
Finally

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