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When I was...

When I was...

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a...

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Victor Hugo: Genius is a...

Victor Hugo: Genius is a...

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Source: In Best Quotations for...

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Victor Hugo: Forty is the...

Victor Hugo: Forty is the...

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty, the youth of old age.

Source: In The...

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J B Priestley: I have always...

J B Priestley: I have always...

I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice....

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J B Priestley: Many a man...

J B Priestley: Many a man...

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of...

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Louise Erdrich: I think a...

Louise Erdrich: I think a...

I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it....

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Euripides: If we could...

Euripides: If we could...

If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.

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Edward Albee: Good writers define...

Edward Albee: Good writers define...

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more...

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Edward Albee: If Attila the...

Edward Albee: If Attila the...

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

Source: In Webster's...

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Terence: The nature of...

Terence: The nature of...

The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better than in their...

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Jean Racine: I loved you...

Jean Racine: I loved you...

I loved you when you were inconstant. What should I have done if you had been faithful? (Je t'aimais inconstant,...

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Jean Racine: Oh, I have...

Jean Racine: Oh, I have...

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him. (Ah! je l'ai trop aim? pour ne le point...

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Bertolt Brecht: It's all right...

Bertolt Brecht: It's all right...

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Brendan Behan: Critics are like...

Brendan Behan: Critics are like...

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do...

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People don't very...

People don't very...

People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little...

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Inspiration is an...

Inspiration is an...

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic...

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Waiting and hoping...

Waiting and hoping...

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is...

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As death, when...

As death, when...

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

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It was an...

It was an...

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interdisciplinary...

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A symphony must...

A symphony must...

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

Source: In Friendly...

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