"Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate."
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"This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France. Twelve people were killed because a satirical newspaper made jokes that some group found offensive. All of us are accustomed to bad news from around the world. But this story hits home for anybody who mocks anyone."
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"The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5."
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"When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy."
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"Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV."
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"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."
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"Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners."
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"Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect."
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"There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism."
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"What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what we're doing to the oceans - and none of it makes any sense to me."
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"We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy."
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"Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce."
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"I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy."
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"Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth"
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"Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away."
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"And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now."
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"It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy."
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"Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy."
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"Tragedies come in the hungry hours."
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"Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours."
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