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My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
-Joan Rivers
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There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
-Joan Rivers
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In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
-Constance Rourke
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Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
-William Shakespeare
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And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.
-William Shakespeare
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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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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
-James Thurber
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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
-Francois Truffaut
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The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
-Thornton Wilder
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Books about Comedy
