By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
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Nationality: American Type: Entertainer Born: December 9, 1898 Death: March 28, 1979 |
“But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.”
“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”