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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: January 4, 1883 Date of Death: March 25, 1969 Nationality: American Amazon: Max Eastman on Amazon |
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Expect,
Go,
Goal,
Him,
Joke,
Just,
Land,
Listener,
Mind,
Nowhere,
Off,
Plausible,
Play,
Process,
Start,
Sudden,
Then,
Thing,
Toward,
Trick,
Twist,
Where
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