Margaret Atwood quote about tragedy from The Blind Assassin - But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell-burst, the plummet of the car from the bridge.
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“ But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell-burst, the plummet of the car from the bridge. ”
 Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (2000). copy citation

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Author Margaret Atwood
Source The Blind Assassin
Topic tragedy duration moment
Date 2000
Language English
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Margaret Atwood quote about tragedy from The Blind Assassin - But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell-burst, the plummet of the car from the bridge.
Margaret Atwood quote about tragedy from The Blind Assassin - But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell-burst, the plummet of the car from the bridge.