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“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

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Author:Willa Cather

“But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.”

Ends Problem Political Issues Policy Keys Tragedy Suicide Silent Public Policy Political Will Personal Tragedy

Author:Bob Rae

“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.”

Ends Whole Action Certain Middle Tragedy Representation Magnitude

Book:Aristotle: the Poetics:

Source: Aristotle: the Poetics:

“If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.”

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Author:Thornton T. Munger

“Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.”

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Book:I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

Source: I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

“Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.”

Knows Ends Comedy Fate Tragedy

Book:The Original Woman

Source: The Original Woman

“There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.”

Ends Play Roles Strength Tragedy

Author:Peggy Ashcroft

“I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.”

Feels Should Children Ends Happens Mother Born Tragedy Categories

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.”

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Author:Nelson Shanks

“All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.”

Ends Imagine Return Tragedy Passages Passage Of Time

Book:Lectures on Philosophy

Source: Lectures on Philosophy