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Thornton Wilder: Life is an...

Thornton Wilder: Life is an...

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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Aeschylus: The reward of...

Aeschylus: The reward of...

The reward of suffering is experience.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major...

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Oscar Wilde: EXPERT: An ordinary...

Oscar Wilde: EXPERT: An ordinary...

EXPERT: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

Source:
-- Oscar Wilde,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So careful of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So careful of...

So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life.


Source: In...

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William Wordsworth: Whither is fled...

William Wordsworth: Whither is fled...

Whither is fled the visionary gleam
Where is it now, the glory and the dream.


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Alexander Pope: What's fame? a...

Alexander Pope: What's fame? a...

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My strength is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My strength is...

My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.


Source: Sir...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Alone and warming...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Alone and warming...

Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.


Source: Song:...

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Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of...

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Francis Thompson: The innocent moon,...

Francis Thompson: The innocent moon,...

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,
Moves all the labouring surges of the...

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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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Emma Lazarus: Give me your...

Emma Lazarus: Give me your...

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming...

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Diane Wakoski: Learning to live...

Diane Wakoski: Learning to live...

Learning to live with what you're born with
is the process,
the involvement,
the making of a...

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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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Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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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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J August Strindberg: In the old...

J August Strindberg: In the old...

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend....

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Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery,...

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