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Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland. Deirdre O'Kane
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Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it. John Millington Synge
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His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid. Bob Dylan
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I like to always have humour in whatever I do. Adam Brody
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It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. Diana Wynne Jones
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I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix. Michelle Gomez
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Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour. Andy Murray
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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more. Andrew Davies
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If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it Bill Cosby
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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
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One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare. Douglas Adams
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My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel. Simon Schama
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Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. George Saintsbury
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The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
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Bo just shot the dickens out of it.
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As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice. Claire Tomalin
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.