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I think art can reflect tragedy.

John Corigliano

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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

John Mortimer

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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

Tags: Think Just Children

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

Mike Birbiglia

Tags: Time Different Everybody

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Stephen Vizinczey

Tags: You Your Close

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Olivia Thirlby

Tags: Even Comedy Shakespeare

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

John Phillips

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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Irvin S. Cobb

Tags: Humor Head Standing

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

Mike Ditka

Tags: Without Situation Talent

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

John Masefield

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Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

Hunter Tylo

Tags: Business Our Doing

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

Ezra Pound

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Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.

Lydia Leonard

Tags: Every Emotion Tragedy

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Charlie Chaplin

Tags: Life Seen Comedy

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck

Tags: Humor Comedy Line

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Tags: You Like Always

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy

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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

Jacky Ickx

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The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Maxwell Anderson

Tags: Even Play Serious

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: Humor Think Without

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

Melissa McCarthy

Tags: Very Only Any

That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.

Roger Rees

Tags: Always Life Been

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

Carlton Cuse

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When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

Robert Wilson

Tags: You Will Little

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tags: Death Like Get

I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

Robert Gottlieb

Tags: Life Had Never

James Madison

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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Karl Marx

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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Jean Racine

Tags: Death Need Enough

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

John Caudwell

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Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Roger Ebert

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To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Tags: Up Life Your

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

Saul Alinsky

Tags: Power Future Death

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Joyce Cary

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The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.

David Grann

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When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.

Paul Engle

Tags: Marriage You Very

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

Jess Walter

Tags: Out Our Real

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

Mario Van Peebles

Tags: Death Think Really

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

William Barclay

Tags: God Men Life

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John F. Kennedy

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