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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Angela Carter

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Carter, Angela. Wise Children. Chatto & Windus, 1991, ch. 5.

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Carter, Angela. Wise Children. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ch. 5.

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Tragedy plus time equals comedy.

Steve Allen

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Allen, Steve. "Steve Allen's Almanac." Cosmopolitan Magazine, Feb. 1957.

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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

John Updike

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 6.

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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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Thurber, James. "The Duchess and the Bugs." Lanterns & Lances. Harper & Brothers, 1961.

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