Now we have only the escapists, who write of happenings a hundred or three hundred years ago, false to history, false to human nature.
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Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.Dawn Powell
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
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I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.
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This book is enough to make a stone weep and if anyone should read it they would think the writer was indeed in pathetic straits.
Dawn Powell
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