James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Quoted in The Observer (London, 5 February 1961).
Letters and interviews
“There is a difference between tragedy and blind brutal calamity.”
"The Will" (1953)
Context: There is a difference between tragedy and blind brutal calamity. Tragedy has meaning, and there is dignity in it. Tragedy stands with its shoulders stiff and proud. But there is no meaning, no dignity, no fulfillment, in the death of a child.
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American fiction writer 1923–1996Related quotes
Equus (Longman, [1973] 1993), p. 11 <br class="br">Conferː "Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right." <br class="br">Interviewed by Mike Wood for the William Inge Center for the Arts. http://www.ingecenter.org/interviews/PeterShaffertext.htm
Eric Hobsbawm book The Age of Extremes
Source: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Sixteen, End of Socialism
“We all see these great calamities with different eyes, and so their impact upon us is different.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
The Path To Power (1995)
Christopher Fry (1907–2005) British writer
"Comedy," Vogue, January 1951
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 5
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Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
"Official Report to the I.I.A.S.", p. 126
Papers of the Adams Family (1939)
Source: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings