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"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."

Manuel Puig on Humor

More quotes about Humor

  • "A joke is a very serious thing."

    Winston Churchill on Humor

  • "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

    Mark Twain on Humor

  • "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

    William James on Humor

  • "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

  • "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

    Henry Ward Beecher on Humor

More quotes by Manuel Puig

  • "I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."

  • "I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

  • "What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"

  • "I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."

  • "I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."

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