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I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold.
So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
I play for those young kids with cancer or anybody who went through a tragedy in their life.
From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.
I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.
Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash.
Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.
Even in the face of tragedy, human beings need to find a way to laugh. It's normal. It's life.
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.
The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.
In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings
The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.