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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: Sometimes a person...

Edward Albee: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance...

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Alan Bennett: We started trying...

Alan Bennett: We started trying...

We started trying to set up a small anarchist community, but the people wouldn't obey the...

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca: These flowers, which...

Pedro Calderon de la Barca: These flowers, which...

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly,
Waking in the dawn of the morning,
In the evening will be a...

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David Hare: Some people carry...

David Hare: Some people carry...

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart...

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Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write.

Source: The New York...

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Harriet Monroe: Great ages of...

Harriet Monroe: Great ages of...

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . ....

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Nicolas Boileau: The world is...

Nicolas Boileau: The world is...

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also...

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Miguel de Cervantes: Make it thy...

Miguel de Cervantes: Make it thy...

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will...

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Terry McMillan: It takes me...

Terry McMillan: It takes me...

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God...

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Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Source: 'No...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give...

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Ogden Nash: Children aren't happy...

Ogden Nash: Children aren't happy...

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.


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George Moses Horton: Alas! and am...

George Moses Horton: Alas! and am...

Alas! and am I born for this? To wear this slavish chain?

Source: On Liberty and...

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Alexander Smith: I go into...

Alexander Smith: I go into...

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of...

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Richard Lovelace: Tell me not,...

Richard Lovelace: Tell me not,...

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind,
To war and arms...

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Louis Aragon: Light is meaningful...

Louis Aragon: Light is meaningful...

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which...

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Novalis: Where children are,...

Novalis: Where children are,...

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned...

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Oscar Wilde: I have put...

Oscar Wilde: I have put...

I have put my genius into my life; all I've put into my works is my talent.

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