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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

• perihelions 3y ago
  That's the opening line of Anna Karenina. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1399/pg1399-images.html#chap01 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1399/pg1399-images.html...
• bombcar 3y ago
  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.