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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman
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Clifton Fadiman
Age: 95 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 15
Died: 1999
Died: June 20
Intellectual
Journalist
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Brooklyn
New York
Clifton Paul Fadiman
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