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— H. P. Lovecraft"All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
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If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?
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To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
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