Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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Wise Children (1991), ch. 5 (p.213)Angela Carter
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"Leaf by Niggle" ends as a comedy, even as a "divine comedy," on more levels than one. But while it looks forward to "divine comedy", it incorporates and springs from a sense of earthly tragedy: failure, anxiety, and frustration.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin) Chaplin
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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