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"Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat." »Peter Sellers
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"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." »Eric Idle
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"When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy Are they presuming comedy is easier" »Carol Burnett
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"The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." »Jack Lemmon
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"“Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the divine, you will miss it altogether. ….. Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.” -Amit Ray,“Om Chanting and Meditation”" »Amit Ray
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"comedy is acting out optimism." »Robin Williams
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"comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." »Peter Ustinov
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"Friends applaud, the comedy is over." »Ludwig von Beethoven, last words
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"We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look." »Aldous Huxley
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"comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred." »Pico Iyer
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"comedy is allied to justice." »Aristophenes
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"comedy is tragedy plus time." »Carol Burnett
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"The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be." »Jerry Seinfeld
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." »Horace Walpole
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"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." »Unknown
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"This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." »Horace Walpole
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"Dying is easy. comedy is difficult." »Actor Edmund Gwenn
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"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." »Horace Walpole
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." »La Bruyere
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"comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind." »Edward Albee
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"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel." »James Thurber
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"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." »Mel Brooks
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"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot" »Charlie Chaplin
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"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." »Charlie Chaplin
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"God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny." »Garrison Keillor
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"There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy." »Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
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"It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously." »Stephen Fry
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"My belief is that to have no wants is divine." »Socrates
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"To err is human to forgive, divine." »Alexander Pope
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