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Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.
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Laughter is the sudden handshake of mystic violence and the anarchist.
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Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.
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Laughter does not progress. It is primitive, hard and unchangeable.
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Laughter is the strong elastic fish, caught in Styx, springing and flapping about until it dies.
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Laughter is the one obvious commotion that is not complex, or in expression dynamic.
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Laughter is the bark of delight of a gregarious animal at the proximity of its kind.
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Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
November 18, 1882
Died:
March 7, 1957
(aged 74)
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