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Re:It's Dante's Hell–We're Just Living in It by QuercusMax on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:20PM (#39973853)
I believe it was Tolstoy who said something to the effect of "Happy families are boring, because they're all the same. Unhappy families are interesting because they're all different."
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Re:It's Dante's Hell–We're Just Living in It by perihelions on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:11PM (#39974268)
That's the opening line of Anna Karenina.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1399/pg1399-images.html...

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Re:It's Dante's Hell–We're Just Living in It by bombcar on Monday April 08, 2024 @11:56PM (#39976083)
Tolkien echoed the same thing in The Hobbit:

“Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.”

And we see it on HN itself, there are many "very good" stories that get posted that get a lot of upvotes but few comments because really all there is to say is 'very good'.

But stories about bad things happening get thousands of comments.

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