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Thornton Wilder: The planting of...

Thornton Wilder: The planting of...

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the...

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Antonin Artaud: Tragedy on the...

Antonin Artaud: Tragedy on the...

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

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Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no...

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Friedrich von Schiller: It hinders the...

Friedrich von Schiller: It hinders the...

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour...

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Friedrich von Schiller: Man is an...

Friedrich von Schiller: Man is an...

Man is an imitative creature.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Jean Anouilh: What you get...

Jean Anouilh: What you get...

What you get free costs too much.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Jean Anouilh: I like reality....

Jean Anouilh: I like reality....

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Paul Eldridge: With the stones...

Paul Eldridge: With the stones...

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us.

Source: In The...

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Martial: Live thy life...

Martial: Live thy life...

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Source: Epigrams, 7,...

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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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Charlotte Bronte: I am always...

Charlotte Bronte: I am always...

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Source: Shirley, 1849.
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Christopher Hampton: I became a...

Christopher Hampton: I became a...

I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists...

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Alexander Pope: Fix'd like a...

Alexander Pope: Fix'd like a...

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.


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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: I always wanted...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: I always wanted...

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college . . . I did other...

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Imelda Marcos: I did not...

Imelda Marcos: I did not...

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Source:...

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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: To tell you...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: To tell you...

To tell you of this city, I would not do justice to the subject. The extravagance is in dressing and running to...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: [I want] minimum...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: [I want] minimum...

[I want] minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Source: Instructions to...

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William J Bennett: Most certification today...

William J Bennett: Most certification today...

Most certification today is pure credentialism. [It] must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our...

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Henry Kissinger: I am being...

Henry Kissinger: I am being...

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: The essence of...

Eleanor Holmes Norton: The essence of...

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the...

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