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— George Bernard Shaw"The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it."
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage...Oh, God!
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