“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989Related quotes
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Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
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Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Case for Comedy", Lanterns & Lances http://books.google.com/books?id=m0RZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22humor+and+pathos+tears+and+laughter+are+in+the+highest+expression+of+human+character+and+achievement+inseparable%22&pg=PA143#v=onepage (1961); previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly November 1960 http://books.google.com/books?id=6q8GAQAAIAAJ&q=%22and+pathos+tears+and+laughter+are+in+the+highest+expression+of+human+character+and+achievement+inseparable%22&pg=PA98#v=onepage <br class="br">From Lanterns and Lances
Kurt Vonnegut book Palm Sunday
"Palm Sunday", a sermon delivered at St. Clement's Church, New York City (ndg), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You" (ndg)
Palm Sunday (1981)
Context: Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward — and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.