"When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams."

-- Woody Allen

#Tragedy Quotes #Tennessee Quotes #Dramatic Quotes

“It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.”
“What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!”

Source : James Sheridan Knowles (1837). “The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts”
“I think the retirement crisis globally is a major problem. I think it's especially prevalant in countries such as Japan, where immigration is an issue. I think the US is more shielded from it than most countries in the world. It has a higher birth rate than Japan, immigration is tolerated here unlike probably it is in Japan. I don't think it's as big an issue in the US as it is elsewhere in the world.”
“What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.”
“The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.”
“I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.”

Source : Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.189, Penguin
“You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.”
“And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.”

Source : Song: My Friends, Album: End of the Summer

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