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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

— Robin Williams

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Parry is a man with a previous life that was so damaged that he had to create another personality.

On his role in The Fisher King (1991)

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready."

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One of the fundamental things is in a jihad. That sounds like a country western term like, "Jiii-had!"

Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002)

Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

You're only given a little spark of madness and if you lose that, you're nothin'.

A Night at the Roxy (1978)

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Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

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A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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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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