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Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

I love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it… the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.