“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and our attachment to the forms; comedy,
the wild and careless inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”
— The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell, p. 28

“Tragedy is if I cut my finger. I’ll scream and I’ll cry and I’ll run around and I’ll go to Mt. Sinai for a day and a half. That’s a tragedy. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die. What do I care? That’s comedy! My finger’s important!”
— Mel Brooks as the 2000 Year Old Man from the record “Live at the Cannes
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