5 Quotes by John Updike about humor
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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
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If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
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The brontosaurus had thirty-ton body and a two-ounce brain. The anatosaurus had two thousand teeth. Triceratops had a helmet of filled bone seven feet long. Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms and teeth like six-inch razors and it was elected President. It ate everything—dead meat, living meat, old bones—
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The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
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One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
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