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The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. III


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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.
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ALVAR AALTO We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
ALDOUS HUXLEY We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Life is a tragedy without comedy, but the comedy is nothing but the truth and reality only.
ANUJ SOMANY We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
CAROL BURNETT Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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HORACE WALPOLE Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
UNKNOWN Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, wh...
AARON ALLSTON Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
CAROL BURNETT Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
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BUSTER KEATON The only difference between a comedy and a tragedy is at which point the story ends.
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
ANGELA CARTER Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
JOHN GUARE Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOEL In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
CHRISTOPHER FRY A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
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CHARLES DICKENS One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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G.K. CHESTERTON There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
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HARRY LEVIN There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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HORACE WALPOLE Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may or...
ARTHUR SMITH Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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GABRIEL CHEVALLIER I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
RACHAEL HARRIS The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the...
PAUL DI FILIPPO This was an incredibly horrible tragedy. A tragedy for the Swift family and a tragedy for the Morgan...
FERN ADELSTEIN Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect...
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DICK CAVETT Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humor...
ARNOLD BEISSER Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humoro...
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JOAN RIVERS When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it ca...
MONICA BELLUCCI The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straig...
DAWN POWELL Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an...
HAROLD RAMIS Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy wou...
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BILL WATTERSON The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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