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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.