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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
Born: May 22, 1907
Died: Jul 11, 1989

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