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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

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However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

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This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

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