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The Odd One In: On Comedy QUOTES

The Odd One In: On Comedy QUOTES

1 " Negativity, lack, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, are perceived more and more as moral faults-worse, as a corruption at the level of our very being or bare life. "

― Alenka Zupančič , The Odd One In: On Comedy

2 " If a love encounter is like a good joke, then what is love in its duration and temporality-what is, as we say, a love that lasts? "

― Alenka Zupančič , The Odd One In: On Comedy

3 " Jupiter promises us infallible happiness, fortune, a thousand blessings, and a brave son. Isn't this what everybody wants? "

― Alenka Zupančič , The Odd One In: On Comedy

4 " It is this short circuit that constitutes the peak of comedy: not simply the fact that Big Jim erroneously sees a chicken when he looks at Charlie, but also the fact that, for all his error, he is somehow right-Charlie does look like a chicken. "

― Alenka Zupančič , The Odd One In: On Comedy

5 " it is not enough that we know how things really stand; in a certain sense, things themselves have to realize how they stand. "

― Alenka Zupančič , The Odd One In: On Comedy

6 " comedy and comic satisfaction thrive on things that do not exactly add up. They thrive on these discrepancies as a source of pleasure rather than pain. Yet this by no means implies that comedy is distinguished from tragedy by what one would call today a "positive attitude," "positive thinking," the ability to find something positive and satisfactory even in the worst situations. "

― Alenka Zupančič , The Odd One In: On Comedy