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Tragedy Quotes by George Pierce Baker
- There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever…
- What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we…
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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… — Aristotle
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to… — Robert Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained. — John Banville
- The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him,… — William Barclay
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...… — Nina Bawden
- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger
- I can't go on. I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett