"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."

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Source : John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.5, The Overlook Press

John Guare

#Tragedy Quotes #Comedy Quotes #Humiliation Quotes

“We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.”
“Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 921-24, De Raptu Proserpiae, III. 227, 1922.
“Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.”
“When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.”

Source : Ruth Rendell (2010). “Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)”, p.61, Random House
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.”
“We all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard, because who wants to admit they're masturbating?”
“A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.”
“I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident”

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