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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?
Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him.
Goal' is a human drama. It is a triumph of human spirit where football is the device through which the characters actualise themselves and find victory in their lives.
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.
They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated.
I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.
If you believe in democracy, you accept, by definition, the existence and triumph of opposing ideas. The people who believe deeply in the Internet's force as a commons operate on that kind of premise.
If we didn't desensitize ourselves in some way, every day would feel like its own tragedy.
The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.
From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.
A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
The sandstorm, which I think is an absolute triumph, could have been awkward. It's sex in a car, so who knows. And I think the rooftops look fantastic [in Allied].
I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately.
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this that one day you will see the justice of God rising with unfailing triumph.
I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.
The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.
To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.
The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.
In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.
It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.
Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.
Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
