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What does this quote from mark twain mean?

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"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow."

HOW DOES HUMOR AND SORROW GO HAND AND HAND PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!

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Ever had everything go completely wrong in your life and you just sit back with amazement and just sort of chuckle and say 'it figures'? Same thing....
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Sorrow makes a person eager for something easy. It makes you look for humor, light-heartedness.
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it means just like things that are funny can be happy like sadness

like if there was ever a person you hated lets say something bad happens to them and you think its funny .
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I'm probaly wrong but another way of explaining it (mostly some thing you experience when you are a kid) but like it your friend trips and hurts themselves you'll find their sorrow funny even though i'm probaly wrong thats my opinion.
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When watching a horror movie they might out some comedy relief in and you laugh your butt off. If that same bit was used in a comedy you wouldn't even crack a smile.

It's the contrast between our real lives and the lives we want to live. If you took your comedy act to the streets of Iraq you would find them so easy to amuse. Because their life is full of death and sorrow they are eager to laugh.
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its not funny when somthing good happens like its allways funny when somthing wrong happens
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