Dawn Powell

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. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#human-nature #humanity #repetition #tragedy #age

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#book #cream #gets #gland #instead

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#had #i #i love #joe #love

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

#left #like #out #people #realism

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#going #mind #overboard #requisite

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. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#always #burlesque #comedy #dupe #fox

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#contentment #days #excitement #flow #i

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). ↗

— Dawn Powell

#basis #comedy #death #disease #greed