George Pierce Baker Quotes

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

George Pierce Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1866 - January 6, 1935

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Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

Jim DeMint

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It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

Joe Gold

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If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

Jenny Downham

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I get paid to talk politics, which I've done my entire life and I would do for free anyway.

Ana Navarro

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I just want to contribute to my team and earn the trust and do everything they need from me.

Stefon Diggs

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I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.

Tom Drury

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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

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I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

Miranda Raison

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Whatever team I go to, I'll be excited to go.

Jared Goff

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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Joseph Campbell

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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Joseph Howe

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'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.

Jon Watts

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