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"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
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"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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"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."
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"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."
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"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."
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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
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"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."
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"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
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"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
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"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."
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"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."
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"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."
Faith
"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
Life
"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
Home
"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
Death
"Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time."
Poetry
"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
Life
"The dark is light enough."
Light
"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
Comedy
"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
Imagination
"Coffee in England is just toasted milk."
Coffee
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