| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 53510 |
| QUOTATION: | Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1906). Dr. Colenso Ridgeon, in The Doctor’s Dilemma, act 5, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Shaw Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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