Andrei Codrescu Quotes

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

Andrei Codrescu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 20, 1946

Topics

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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Jean Paul

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I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

Sofia Coppola

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Tony Campolo

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I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.

Jon Favreau

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Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Jon Johansen

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I'm pretty romantic.

Douglas Booth

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I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.

Cole Sprouse

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The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

Pedro Almodovar

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ClassPass, to me, is people are choosing a lifestyle to live; it's saying, 'Yes, I want to work out and live my healthiest happiest.'

Payal Kadakia

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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

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Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

Nina Bawden

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