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Dawn Powell

"The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy."

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A.E. Samaan

"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."

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A.E. Samaan

"As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight."

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A.E. Samaan

"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."

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A.E. Samaan

"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

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A.E. Samaan

"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."

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A.E. Samaan

"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"

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A.E. Samaan

"Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes."

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A.E. Samaan

"There's always been physical suffering in comedy."

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A.E. Samaan

"Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy."

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Dawn Powell
"A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind."

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Dawn Powell
"The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy."

Comedy

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Dawn Powell
"A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person."

Running

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Dawn Powell
"I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do."

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Dawn Powell
"I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him."

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Dawn Powell
"The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power)."

War

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Dawn Powell
"Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out."

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Dawn Powell
"Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement."

Life

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Dawn Powell
"Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more."

Love

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