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History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
Jean Baudrillard
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl Marx
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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
David Gemmell
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These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
Henry Miller
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Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
D. H. Lawrence
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It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.
Julian Barnes
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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
Francois Rabelais
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Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
Trish Stratus
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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
George Gissing
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We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
Oscar Wilde
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On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.
Anthony Powell
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
Michel de Montaigne
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You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.
Helmut Jahn
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
John Mortimer
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To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
Paulo Freire
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If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones
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Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
Cyril Smith
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Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.
Irving Howe
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The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.
George R. R. Martin
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.
Thomas Paine
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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
Oscar Wilde
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The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
Lorrie Moore
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Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
Horace Walpole
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Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole inspection process and all the rigmarole surrounding it a total farce.
Rush Limbaugh
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I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.
Jeff Foxworthy
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Samuel Johnson
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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
George P. Baker
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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
Eric Bentley
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Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
John Dryden