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Joe Orton: It's all any...

Joe Orton: It's all any...

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

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Thornton Wilder: The best thing...

Thornton Wilder: The best thing...

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Christopher Hampton: Asking a working...

Christopher Hampton: Asking a working...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about...

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David Hare: Children always turn...

David Hare: Children always turn...

Children always turn to the light.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Sean O'Casey: It's only a...

Sean O'Casey: It's only a...

It's only a little cold I have; there's nothing derogatory wrong with me.

Source:...

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Wilson Mizner: The gent who...

Wilson Mizner: The gent who...

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Source: In...

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Oscar Wilde: A thing is...

Oscar Wilde: A thing is...

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Erskine, in The...

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May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,<br>in...

May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,
in...

Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind,
hope to shoot and hit
-- if they can find it
-- the...

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May Swenson: The summer that...

May Swenson: The summer that...

The summer that I was ten --
Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must
have been a long one...

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May Swenson: THE DNA MOLECULE<br>THE...

May Swenson: THE DNA MOLECULE
THE...

THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
is The Nude Descending a Staircase
a circular one. See...

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Basil Bunting: Sooner or later...

Basil Bunting: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

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Caius Valerius Catullus: Oh, this age!...

Caius Valerius Catullus: Oh, this age!...

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

Source: From Rand Lindsly's HUGE...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

I hate and love. You may ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it and am in torment.

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Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Icebergs behoove the soul (Both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair,...

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Vachel Lindsay: Life is a...

Vachel Lindsay: Life is a...

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

Source: The Chinese Nightingale.
-- Vachel...

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Jean de la Fontaine: A mountain in...

Jean de la Fontaine: A mountain in...

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be...

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Jean de la Fontaine: Patience and passage...

Jean de la Fontaine: Patience and passage...

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Source: Fables, II,...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Source: With Words, The Motorcycle Betrayal...

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Diane Wakoski: I write in...

Diane Wakoski: I write in...

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it...

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Hesiod: Badness you can...

Hesiod: Badness you can...

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the...

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