You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

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Topic

Life

Author

Annie Proulx

Source

The Shipping News

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993, ch. 10.

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Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Nature of life Life
Speaker
Sweeney

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
Fragment of an Agon
Language
English
Time
1932 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Eliot, T. S. "Fragment of an Agon." Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. Faber & Faber, 1932.