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John Fletcher: Hit the nail...

John Fletcher: Hit the nail...

Hit the nail on the head.

Source: Love's Cure, Act ii. Sc. 1.
-- John Fletcher,...

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J B Priestley: I know only...

J B Priestley: I know only...

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is...

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Louise Erdrich: For a short...

Louise Erdrich: For a short...

For a short while, our mothers bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the...

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Louise Erdrich: Columbus only discovered...

Louise Erdrich: Columbus only discovered...

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

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Euripides: Slight not what...

Euripides: Slight not what...

Slight not what is near, while aiming at what is far.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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William Gilbert: No good play...

William Gilbert: No good play...

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for...

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Arthur Miller: The job is...

Arthur Miller: The job is...

The job is to ask questions -- it always was -- and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of...

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Maxwell Anderson: Truth's like a...

Maxwell Anderson: Truth's like a...

Truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen.

Source: In ...As One Mad...

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Marsha Norman: We are not...

Marsha Norman: We are not...

We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has...

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John Ford: Honour,<br>How much we...

John Ford: Honour,
How much we...

Honour,
How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee.


Source: The Broken...

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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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Thomas Middleton: There's no hate...

Thomas Middleton: There's no hate...

There's no hate lost between us.

Source: The Witch, act 4, sc. 3, 1627.
--...

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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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Jean Racine: A single word...

Jean Racine: A single word...

A single word often betrays a great design.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Jean Racine: Day is not...

Jean Racine: Day is not...

Day is not purer than the depths of my heart. (Le jour n'est pas plus pur que le fond de mon...

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August Wilson: It ain't nothing...

August Wilson: It ain't nothing...

It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find...

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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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Edward Albee: You gotta have...

Edward Albee: You gotta have...

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

Source: Who's Afraid of...

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Moli?re: The trees that...

Moli?re: The trees that...

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Source: In Quotable Business,...

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Peter Ustinov: I'm convinced there's...

Peter Ustinov: I'm convinced there's...

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to...

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