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John Osborne: He really deserves...

John Osborne: He really deserves...

He really deserves some sort of decoration . . . a medal inscribed 'For Vaguery in the...

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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: I saw him...

John Webster: I saw him...

I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen.

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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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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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Ben Sweetland: Wonder if there...

Ben Sweetland: Wonder if there...

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion...

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George Bernard Shaw: If Pygmalion, is...

George Bernard Shaw: If Pygmalion, is...

If Pygmalion, is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether...

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You have always...

You have always...

You have always given me more than I gave to you. . . . You were the wings on which I...

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Played percussively, the...

Played percussively, the...

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home...

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John Osborne: The schoolteacher is...

John Osborne: The schoolteacher is...

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an...

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John Webster: Man may his...

John Webster: Man may his...

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. . . . 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

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Aeschylus: When a man's...

Aeschylus: When a man's...

When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

Source: From Charades, an...

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Aeschylus: Who, except the...

Aeschylus: Who, except the...

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Source:...

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Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

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Oscar Wilde: A pessimist is...

Oscar Wilde: A pessimist is...

A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both.

Source:...

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Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to...

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John Keats: Praise or blame...

John Keats: Praise or blame...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic...

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Walt Whitman: Do I contradict...

Walt Whitman: Do I contradict...

Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain...

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William Carlos Williams: By listening to...

William Carlos Williams: By listening to...

By listening to the language of his locality the poet learns his craft. It is his function to lift, by the use of his...

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William Carlos Williams: When they ask...

William Carlos Williams: When they ask...

When they ask me . . . how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem. I reply that...

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