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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
Approximate author period: c. 1929 AD · modern
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- James Thurber
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- Approximate author period: c. 1929 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for James Thurber: documented activity in 1929. Wikidata Q124527, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124527 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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