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“There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”
Oscar Wilde
“Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.”
Rita Mae Brown
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.”
William Dean Howells
“Well, the tragedy is over. The failure is complete. I turn my head and go away. I took my share in this fight for the impossible.”
Albert Camus
“I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors them selves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage.”
Jim Morrison
“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.”
Loren Eiseley
“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
William Somerset Maugham
“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
Horace Walpole
