| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 8963 |
| AUTHOR: | Laurence Olivier |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Confessions of an Actor Simon & Schuster 82 |
| SUBJECTS: | Communications & the Arts: Theater: Actors & Actresses |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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