I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
Anne-Marie Duff
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
A. N. Wilson
TragedyLandBirthUnitedPromise
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
Pierre Salinger
HappinessTragedyMoreShareFar
In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.
Per Petterson
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The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.
Shashi Tharoor
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If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
Richard Le Gallienne
BlameWorldTragedyKnowNeverOwn
The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
Mark Batterson
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Generally speaking, cancer - not that funny of a thing. When you hear about it, you don't go, 'Oh, hilarious!'... But within that - comedy, tragedy, hand-in-hand.
Lennon Parham
FunnyComedyYouTragedyGoWithin
I think whenever any kind of hardship or tragedy comes along, it usually pulls a family closer together or, at least, hopefully.
Justin Hartley
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The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.
Janet Malcolm
LifeTragedyArgumentCreationTone
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
LifeManTragedyAlmostHeWins
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.
Jill McCorkle
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The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.
Gianni Versace
StrongEnvironmentTragedyOverAir
I have never been one to run when tragedy strikes.
Jenna Morasca
TragedyRunNeverBeenStrikes
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.
Erik Larson
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I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.
Melissa McCarthy
SisterSmallCalmTragedyOnlyVery
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
Elyn Saks
TragedyStopJailMental Illness
American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.
John Mellencamp
SufferingAmericanTragedyRight
I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.
David Roberts
ResearchDoingInformationTragedy
It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.
Matt Rosendale
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I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.
Cedric Richmond
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Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
Michael Bay
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It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.
Alexandra Fuller
BelieveEndTragedyPainsUsOur
If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.
John Phillips
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