“I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.” PeopleShouldTryingImportantWarCoursesSidesTragedyVietnamBoth SidesCoinsHomelessnessVietnam WarFlipping A Coin Author:Graham Nash
“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.” IfsWantShouldWritingYearsLongBookRealEndsWantedDiesNovelImpossibleGoes OnTraditionTragedyWoundsReal LifeScarConventionalHappy EndingsOld Wounds Author:Willa Cather
“And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.” ShouldGirlActingLowsTragedyGravesFollyStoopsFarce Author:Horace