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There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy. -- Christopher Paul Curtis
I like the way that Dexter mixed humor, dark humor and tragedy, in a way I don't think that I've seen another show do. To handle those tonal shifts with so much confidence. Normally, you can mix humor and dark humor, you can mix dark humor and tragedy, but to mix all three... There are just moments with Robin and Reuben, the next door neighbors, that are just funny. -- Jane Espenson
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. -- Erma Bombeck
Humor is tragedy plus time. -- Mark Twain
Tragedy plus time equals humor -- Marie Osmond
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. -- Irvin S. Cobb
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. -- Christopher Hitchens
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor. -- Rajneesh
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. -- Grantland Rice
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it. -- P.B. Kerr
A lot of people consider 9/11 to be a tragedy, and in some ways it is, but I think there's also opportunity for a lot of humor there. -- Zach Braff
My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way. -- Lauren Willig
If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about. -- Scott Avett

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