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Eugene Ionesco: Beauty is a...

Eugene Ionesco: Beauty is a...

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of...

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Eugene Ionesco: The light of...

Eugene Ionesco: The light of...

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. . . . I am not quite...

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Jean Racine: Small crimes always...

Jean Racine: Small crimes always...

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Edward Albee: A play is...

Edward Albee: A play is...

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Source: In NY Times, 18...

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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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Montgomery Clift: Look, he said,...

Montgomery Clift: Look, he said,...

Look, he said, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about...

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Michael J Fox: I'm also very...

Michael J Fox: I'm also very...

I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films [Back to the Future] that, if they do nothing else, allow...

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Charlie Sheen: Early on, I...

Charlie Sheen: Early on, I...

Early on, I used to think it was really cool and macho to jump out of the car and tackle the bad guy. But then when...

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Denzel Washington: Acting is just...

Denzel Washington: Acting is just...

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Source: In The...

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Warren Beatty: In a way,...

Warren Beatty: In a way,...

In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd...

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Jack Nicholson: In my last...

Jack Nicholson: In my last...

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half...

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Jack Nicholson: A star on...

Jack Nicholson: A star on...

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without...

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Ben Stein: You must take...

Ben Stein: You must take...

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has...

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Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it...

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Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...

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Emily Bronte: A person who...

Emily Bronte: A person who...

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half...

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Naomi Mitchison: After you've written...

Naomi Mitchison: After you've written...

After you've written about something once, though, it's very dangerous to try and do it again. The original story was...

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Rumer Godden: The stitch of...

Rumer Godden: The stitch of...

The stitch of a book is its words.

Source: In Book-of-the-Month Club News, Sep...

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Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie...

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Francois Mauriac: Every novel worthy...

Francois Mauriac: Every novel worthy...

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has...

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