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• Satire is tragedy plus time. -- Lenny Bruce
• Comedy = Tragedy + Distance -- Lenny Bruce
• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -- Carol Burne
• Satire = Tragedy + Time
• In a Russian tragedy, everybody dies. In a Russian comedy, everybody dies too.
  But they die happy. -- Barry Farber, in the Journal of Petroleum Technology...
• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot -- Charlie Chapli
• This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. -- Horace Walpole
• Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
  -- Mel Brook...
• We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. -- Aldous Huxley -- The Devils of Loudu