D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Giving Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

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I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

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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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I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.

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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

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

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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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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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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