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Comedy: Text and Theories
Quotations
10
Literature
Undergraduate 3
03/12/2008

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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Larry Gelbart
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Perhaps I know best why it is a man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty
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Aristotle
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh
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George Bernard Shaw
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood
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George Santayana
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The greatest enemy of authority is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter
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Hannah Arendt
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The witticism, which is a transgressive reversal of discourse, does not act on the bases of another code as such; it works through the instantaneous deconstruction of the dominant discursive code. It volatizes the category of the code, and that of the message
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Jean Baudrillard - Comedy requires context
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I unsettle all things nothing to me is sacred, nothing profane
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R.W. Emerson
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The tragedy of Virginia Tech has taught us all a valuable lesson. We now know what you can do with an English major.
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K.W. Johnson
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Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity...
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F.W. Nietzsche
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