Tragedy
The Tomsons' son Mathew died on 24 April 2006 in Durban, South Africa from an accidental death caused by playing the "choking game."
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Famous quotes containing the word tragedy:
“You can write anything you want to,—a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What’s the use? You can never be smarter than you are.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“If tragedy elicits our compassion, comedy appeals to our self-interest. The former confronts life’s failures with noble fortitude, the latter seeks to circumvent them with shrewd nonchalance. The one leaves us momentarily in a mood of resignation, the other in a condition of euphoria.”
—Harry Levin (b. 1912)
“The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)