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title: "7 Modern tragedy Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/god-the-father-and-even-more-often-the-devil-himself-appears-at-times/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-van-booy/athens-is-the-birthplace-of-modern-tragedy-in-the-greek-tragic-plays/)

[Simon Van Booy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-van-booy/)

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> [Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asghar-farhadi/classical-tragedy-was-the-war-between-good-and-evil-we-wanted-evil-to/)

[Asghar Farhadi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asghar-farhadi/)

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> [It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-hammerstein-ii/it-is-a-modern-tragedy-that-despair-has-so-many-spokesmen-and-hope-so/)

[Oscar Hammerstein II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-hammerstein-ii/)

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> [I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/i-wouldn-t-overall-say-that-the-diagnosis-is-a-funny-book-i-would-say/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

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> [It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-mcgovern/it-is-a-modern-tragedy-that-one-of-the-soviet-union-s-most/)

[George McGovern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-mcgovern/)

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> [ The weakness of modern tragedy\[is that\] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/the-weakness-of-modern-tragedy-is-that-transgression-against-the/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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