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Comedy Quotes
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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain.
Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Comedy naturally wears itself out-destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
We couldn't live without comedy.
Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.
The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.
Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Inspirational Quote
You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Success Quote
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Truth Quote
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
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