"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
-Mel Brooks
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"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.“
-Mel Brooks
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