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Joseph Brodsky: Life, the way...

Joseph Brodsky: Life, the way...

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and...

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Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Source: From Journey...

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Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

A Wounded deer - leaps highest.

Source: 1860; Poems, First Series, 1890.
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Antonin Artaud: When we speak...

Antonin Artaud: When we speak...

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of...

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Charles Dibdin: For they say...

Charles Dibdin: For they say...

For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor...

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Harriet Monroe: Surely the vogue...

Harriet Monroe: Surely the vogue...

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is...

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Sarah Josepha Hale: She was a...

Sarah Josepha Hale: She was a...

She was a weak woman - too highly elated in prosperity, too easily depressed by adversity - not considering that both...

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Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sea.

Source: No Signposts in the Sea, 1961.
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Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a...

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Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

Source: A...

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Robert E Sherwood: He must be...

Robert E Sherwood: He must be...

He must be a chaser of wild geese, as well as of wild ducks. He must be prepared to make a public spectacle of...

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Samuel Foote: The great Panjandrum...

Samuel Foote: The great Panjandrum...

The great Panjandrum himself.

Source: Nonsense, quoted by Maria Edgeworth in Harry...

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Thomas Otway: Honest men<br>are the...

Thomas Otway: Honest men
are the...

Honest men
are the soft easy cushions on which knaves
Repose and fatten.


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George Herbert: Dare to be...

George Herbert: Dare to be...

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

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William Gilbert: Things are seldom...

William Gilbert: Things are seldom...

Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.


Source: In The...

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Maxwell Anderson: A dramatist is...

Maxwell Anderson: A dramatist is...

A dramatist is usually thought of as a slightly benighted child of nature who somehow or other did it all on a Ouija...

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Philip Massinger: Now speak,<br>Or be...

Philip Massinger: Now speak,
Or be...

Now speak,
Or be for ever silent.


Source: The Duke of Milan, IV. iii.
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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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Alan Bennett: Were we closer...

Alan Bennett: Were we closer...

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Source:...

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Robert Bly: I have wandered...

Robert Bly: I have wandered...

I have wandered in a face, for hours . . .

Source: In The Concise Columbia...

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