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I prefer the liberation and release of laughter to the boring repetition of tragedy and melodrama.

— Christopher Hope

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One should celebrate irreverence, and pay no respect to power.

I write not to change the world but to undermine it.

Everything I’ve written has been an answer to that.

I’ve spent my entire life looking for something like home.

I go back again and again, to try to find out where I come from.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.

John Wolcot

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