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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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"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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"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed." »Peter McWilliams
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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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"Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation." »John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
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"It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation." »Robert Conklin
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"If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation. Bless the person and know and believe some good will come from it. . . . All of us have seen good come out of disaster . . . the 'blessing in disguise.' When you expect good to come from negativity, it will. What you think about, you bring about." »Joyce Duco
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"comedy is acting out optimism." »Robin Williams
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"Friends applaud, the comedy is over." »Ludwig von Beethoven, last words
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"comedy is allied to justice." »Aristophenes
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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 simply a funny way of being serious." »Peter Ustinov
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"comedy is tragedy plus time." »Carol Burnett
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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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"Dying is easy. comedy is difficult." »Actor Edmund Gwenn
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"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." »Unknown
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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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"This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." »Horace Walpole
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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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"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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"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel." »James Thurber
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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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