"Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable."
— James Thurber

January 1, 1970

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Sources

"The Case for Comedy", Lanterns & Lances (1961); previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly November 1960