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“People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.”

People Thinking Firsts Has Beens Different Mother Cases Terrible First Time Tragedy Unhappy Alzheimer Alzheimer's Terrible Tragedy

Author:Amy Tan

“I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.”

Thinking Believe Moving Lessons Picks Tragedy Don't Believe Lifts Charmed Pick Yourself Up Charmed Life

Author:Charlize Theron

“People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize life equals loss! The whole point of the game is to minimize the pain caused by that equation! Now some people do it by having kids, or making money, or taking up coin collecting, and others do it by getting wasted.”

People Thinking Whole Kids Pain Life Is Games Realizing Born Loss Amount Tragedy Strikes Meaningful Making Money Coins Equations Collecting Having Kids Dandy Realize Life

Author:Dominic West

“This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.”

People Thinking Men Trying Wells May Reason Wisdom Waiting Can Do Clear Logic Tragedy Affair Practicals Contempt Perpetual Nevertheless Idle Proceeding Pitiful

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.”

Thinking Political Desire Growth Cutting Republican Taxes Tragedy Spending Fooled Tax Cuts

Author:Grover Norquist

“I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.”

Thinking Hard Hands Comedy One Thing Periods Drama Tragedy Hand In Hand

Author:Gore Verbinski

“Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.”

Thinking Lost Left Half Taken Advice Disease Tragedy Medicine Medical Prestige Antibiotics Syphilis Typhoid

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.”

People Thinking Empty Tragedy Dry Industrious

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.”

Thinking Tools Tragedy Our Time Who We Are Adopted

Author:Godfrey Reggio

“I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.”

Thinking Humans Two Levels Tragedy Athlete Fascinating Atoms Rivals Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Chris Cleave

“Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.”

Thinking Way Mind Looks Real Seems Remember Stuff Happened Tragedy Yeah Blessed Funeral

Author:Gregg Allman

“I think art can reflect tragedy.”

Thinking Art Tragedy

Author:John Corigliano

“Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.”

Thinking Wells Tragedy Illegal American Politics Great Tragedy

Author:Jack Abramoff

“I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.”

Thinking Needs Writing Mean Art Sometimes Hurt Source Tragedy Very Good Painful Bad Things Covered Layers Pearls Good Place Time Passes Places To Go

Author:Neil Gaiman