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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms — hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
Theodor Reik
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Born:
December 8, 1894
Died:
November 2, 1961
(aged 66)
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