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Constance Rourke
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“An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.”
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“There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.”
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“...humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.”
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“The American quarrel with America, the product of a long self-consciousness ...”
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“Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.”
Constance Rourke, U.S. writer, educator
(1885 - 1941)
Full name: Constance Mayfield Rourke.