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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another… — John Updike

Autobiography and memoir

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

John Updike
1989
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ComedyTragedy
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Autobiography and memoir
Time
1989
Person
John Updike
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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 6.

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