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Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

— Christopher Fry

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Where in this small-talking world can I find
A longitude with no platitude?

The Lady's Not for Burning (1949)

The moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth-rate.

The Lady's Not for Burning (1949)

I hear
A gay modulating anguish, rather like music.

The Lady's Not for Burning (1949)

The Great Bear is looking so geometrical
One would think that something or other could be proved.

The Lady's Not for Burning (1949)

The best
Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in
Look as much like home as we can.

The Lady's Not for Burning (1949)

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The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

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