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    “Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
    —Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)

    “A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
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    “Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you’re trying to escape?”
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