"The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting."

-- Robert Fagles

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“I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.”
“I do try to say, Godâ€™s will be done, sir,â€ said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; â€œbut itâ€™s harder to be resigned than happy people think.”
“When I hear music, itâ€™s visual; I see things,”
“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”
“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”
“More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.”
“A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.”
“An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.”

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