“Affections are not impaired by being tempered with a touch of benevolent laughter. Indeed, I would almost be prepared to risk a generalization and say that all true affections are tempered with laughter. For affection implies intimacy: and one cannot be intimate with another human being without discovering something to laugh at in his or her character. Almost all the virtuous characters in fiction are also slightly ridiculous; perhaps that is because their creators were so fond of them.”
Aldous Huxley, “Two or Three Graces”, 1930.
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