It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
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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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