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In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. -- Dennis Lehane
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. -- Billy Joel
I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus. -- Joseph Boyden
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy. -- Curt Flood
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison. -- Patricia Neal
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. -- John Berger
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky. -- Hayley Atwell
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. -- Nicholas Sparks
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room. -- Anne-Marie Duff
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. -- Werner Herzog
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared. -- Jean Baudrillard
I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea." -- Eva Mendes
I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion. -- Carla Gugino
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation. -- Jean Baudrillard
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. -- Joseph Campbell
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones. -- Lydia Leonard
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. -- Karl Marx
As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions. -- Maryrose Wood
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are -- Arthur Koestler

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