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• So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

  Libba Bray

  Pregnancy, School, Class

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• If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

  Pat Buchanan

  Media, Revolution, Medical

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• The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Native American, Sides, Unbelievable

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• For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

  Michael Gove

  Years, Geek

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• What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Eye, Looks, Actors

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• Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it is small, peace is fragile. Like a baby, it needs nurturing attention. We must protect peace from violence and perversion if it is to grow. We must be strong to do this. But force, even in the name of honor, is always tragic. Instead, we must use the strength of wisdom and conscience. Only that power can nurture peace in this difficult time.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Baby, Peace, Strong

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• My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Pain, Father, Cancer

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• How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Liberty, Revolution, Scene

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• I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

  Bahman Ghobadi

  Humorous, Foundation, Use

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• Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Looks, Littles, Pavement

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

  Juliana Spahr

  Girl, Mother, Writing

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• The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Sides, Priceless

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• Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

  Billy Graham

  Perfection, Heaven, Earth

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• We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  War, Fighting, Reality

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• A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.

  Taika Waititi

  Children, Dark, Elements

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

  Lynn Coady

  Beautiful, Art, Pun

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• Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

  Zoe Akins

  Life Is, Good Things, Young

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• Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.

  Kim Chernin

  Country, May, Able

  Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.

  Robertson Davies

  Blessed, Tragedy, Half

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

  Laura Huxley

  People, World, Littles

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• To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Grief, Fate, Flawed

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

  Helen Keller

  Apology, Charity, Philanthropy

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.232, NYU Press

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• A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse.
  [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

  Horace

  Poetry, Matter, Comic

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• I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Brother, Hands, Assassins

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 202, 1991.

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• Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

  William Kent Krueger

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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