"Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It……" — N.D. Wilson
"Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun."
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43 Quotes by N.D. Wilson
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Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
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