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Stanislaw Lec: When you jump...

Stanislaw Lec: When you jump...

When you jump for joy, beware that someone moves the ground from beneath your feet.

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Victor Hugo: There is one...

Victor Hugo: There is one...

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has...

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Victor Hugo: Common sense is...

Victor Hugo: Common sense is...

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Christopher Isherwood: One should never...

Christopher Isherwood: One should never...

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

Source: In W.O.W....

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J B Priestley: A lot of...

J B Priestley: A lot of...

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful...

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J B Priestley: One of the...

J B Priestley: One of the...

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

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Titus Maccius Plautus: There are occasions...

Titus Maccius Plautus: There are occasions...

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

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Dodie Smith: For though he...

Dodie Smith: For though he...

For though he had very little Latin beyond Cave canem, he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty...

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Terence: How often events,...

Terence: How often events,...

How often events, by chance, and quite unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope...

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John Ford: Whilst we strive...

John Ford: Whilst we strive...

Whilst we strive
To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.


Source: The...

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Beth Henley: That's what I...

Beth Henley: That's what I...

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own...

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Edmond Rostand: The dream, alone,...

Edmond Rostand: The dream, alone,...

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

Source: La...

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Euripides: That glittering hope...

Euripides: That glittering hope...

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Source:...

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Edward Albee: The thing that...

Edward Albee: The thing that...

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

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Brendan Behan: I have never...

Brendan Behan: I have never...

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

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Brendan Behan: There's no one,...

Brendan Behan: There's no one,...

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

Source: In Treasury of Humorous...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's...

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Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. . . . We will go...

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Although one may...

Although one may...

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted...

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I've always had...

I've always had...

I've always had the idea . . . that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state...

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