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Alan Bennett: I was an...

Alan Bennett: I was an...

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of...

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John Ciardi: A good question...

John Ciardi: A good question...

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear...

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John Vanbrugh: As if a...

John Vanbrugh: As if a...

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

Source: The...

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Jules Renard: Literature is an...

Jules Renard: Literature is an...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have...

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A repertory, a...

A repertory, a...

A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial...

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Each person has...

Each person has...

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of...

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Most ballet teachers...

Most ballet teachers...

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be...

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A pretty girl...

A pretty girl...

A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you day and night.


Source: From an...

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Witter Bynner: Existence is beyond...

Witter Bynner: Existence is beyond...

Existence is beyond the power of words to define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them...

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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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May Sarton: The minute one...

May Sarton: The minute one...

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Source: Mrs. Stevens...

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Robert Louis Stevenson: Keep your fears...

Robert Louis Stevenson: Keep your fears...

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Source: In The...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

One ugly trick has often spoiled
The sweetest and the best;
Matilda, though a pleasant child,
One ugly trick...

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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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August Wilson: I found out...

August Wilson: I found out...

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.

Source: West, in Two Trains...

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Arthur Miller: When any creativity...

Arthur Miller: When any creativity...

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes...

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Eugene O'Neill: This is Daddy's...

Eugene O'Neill: This is Daddy's...

This is Daddy's bedtime secret for today: Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is...

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Thomas Middleton: Have you summoned...

Thomas Middleton: Have you summoned...

Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?

Source: The Family of Love, act 5,...

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Eugene Ionesco: Childhood is the...

Eugene Ionesco: Childhood is the...

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly...

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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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