Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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D H Lawwrence
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give usan impression...
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Oscar Wilde
Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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William Shakespeare
The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
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Albert Schweitzer
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.
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Gabrielle Zevin
More Quotes By Morris Gleitzman
Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united
See? Memories aren't happy, they're sad. Don't you know anything?
I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non- Jewish woman...
Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.
