"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."

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Tom Stoppard

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.”

Source : "All That Is Solid Melts into Air review - 'a moving debut of life after Chernobyl'" by John Burnside, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2014.
“Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.”
“I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.”
“If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.”
“Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.”
“For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.”
“Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.”
“The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.”

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