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John Osborne: She's like the...

John Osborne: She's like the...

She's like the old line about justice - not only must be done but must be seen to be done.

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John Osborne: Don't clap too...

John Osborne: Don't clap too...

Don't clap too hard -- it's a very old building.

Source: The Entertainer
-- John...

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John Webster: Glories like glow-worms,...

John Webster: Glories like glow-worms,...

Glories like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near, have neither heat nor...

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David Hare: The theatre is...

David Hare: The theatre is...

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why,...

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John Osborne: Thank God we're...

John Osborne: Thank God we're...

Thank God we're normal, normal, normal, Thank God we're normal, Yes, this is our finest...

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John Osborne: I never deliberately...

John Osborne: I never deliberately...

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something...

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Noel Coward: Trust your instincts....

Noel Coward: Trust your instincts....

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

Source: In The...

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Noel Coward: I like long...

Noel Coward: I like long...

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Source:...

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Thomas Shadwell: The haste of...

Thomas Shadwell: The haste of...

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Source: In Webster's...

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David Mamet: The product of...

David Mamet: The product of...

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We...

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David Mamet: People may or...

David Mamet: People may or...

People may or may not say what they mean. . . but they always say something designed to get what they...

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Christopher Marlowe: Where both deliberate,...

Christopher Marlowe: Where both deliberate,...

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

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Cecil Frances Alexander: Once in royal...

Cecil Frances Alexander: Once in royal...

Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a Mother laid her Baby
In a manger for His...

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John Ashbery: I write with...

John Ashbery: I write with...

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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Robert Bridges: Beauty sat with...

Robert Bridges: Beauty sat with...

Beauty sat with me all the summer day,
Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye;
Nor mark'd I till we parted, how,...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: If hopes were...

Arthur Hugh Clough: If hopes were...

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Source: Say Not the Struggle Nought...

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Novalis: My opinion, my...

Novalis: My opinion, my...

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted...

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Wilfred Owen: The pallor of...

Wilfred Owen: The pallor of...

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow...

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Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

His cup is gall, his meat is tears,
His passion lasts a thousand years.


Source:...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Your world is as big as you make it.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...

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