Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?
Eric Davis
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
John Mortimer
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
Elie Wiesel
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I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
Robert Gottlieb
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
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I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
Jeff Bridges
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Bernard Malamud
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Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.
John Ross Bowie
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Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during times of great stress and tragedy.
Alexandra Bracken
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As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn't have any big life-threatening illnesses, no tumors, no kidney malfunctions... I came from a very poor family. I was chubby as a kid.
Amy Hill
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It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
Willard Scott
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
Sun Ra
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In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren't really one or another.
Rebecca Hall
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tom Stoppard
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In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
Nicholas Sparks
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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
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
James Baldwin
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Your experiences are what made you what you are today. So when tragedy happens in people's lives, and things are left unsaid, it can be very unsettling. The lack of closure can linger.
Michael Pitt
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My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.
Hayley Atwell
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Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
Louise Slaughter
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A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
Darin Strauss
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'Tragedy' and 'Loud City Song' are both inspired by stories from the past.
Julia Holter
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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
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