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James Matthew Barrie: The reason why...

James Matthew Barrie: The reason why...

The reason why birds fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have...

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Aeschylus: Ask the gods...

Aeschylus: Ask the gods...

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Source: The Suppliant Women
-- Aeschylus, ( ...

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Aeschylus: There is no...

Aeschylus: There is no...

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Source: In ...

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Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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Antonin Artaud: So long as...

Antonin Artaud: So long as...

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to...

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Antonin Artaud: No one has...

Antonin Artaud: No one has...

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of...

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Aeschylus: It is not...

Aeschylus: It is not...

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: All progress means...

George Bernard Shaw: All progress means...

All progress means war with society.

Source: Getting Married
-- George Bernard...

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George Bernard Shaw: Grain by grain...

George Bernard Shaw: Grain by grain...

Grain by grain -- a loaf; stone by stone -- a palace.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Bernard Shaw: Changeable women are...

George Bernard Shaw: Changeable women are...

Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom...

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George Bernard Shaw: It is a...

George Bernard Shaw: It is a...

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is...

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George Bernard Shaw: I'm not a...

George Bernard Shaw: I'm not a...

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as...

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George Bernard Shaw: Go on writing...

George Bernard Shaw: Go on writing...

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his...

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George Bernard Shaw: I never resist...

George Bernard Shaw: I never resist...

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me never tempt...

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George Bernard Shaw: I quite agree...

George Bernard Shaw: I quite agree...

I quite agree with you, sir, but what can two do against so many?

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George Bernard Shaw: Man can climb...

George Bernard Shaw: Man can climb...

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Source:...

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William Shakespeare: Silence is the...

William Shakespeare: Silence is the...

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy if I could say how much.

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William Shakespeare: Doth not the...

William Shakespeare: Doth not the...

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his...

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William Shakespeare: He that sleeps...

William Shakespeare: He that sleeps...

He that sleeps feels no the toothache.

Source: Cymbeline.
-- William...

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William Shakespeare: I have not...

William Shakespeare: I have not...

I have not slept one wink.

Source: Cymbeline, III. iv. (103).
-- William...

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