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Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.

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Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.

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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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Novalis: Only an artist...

Novalis: Only an artist...

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.


Source: In...

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Antonin Artaud: There is in...

Antonin Artaud: There is in...

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom...

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Antonin Artaud: So long as...

Antonin Artaud: So long as...

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to...

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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. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by poets for their...

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Charles Dibdin: Then trust me,...

Charles Dibdin: Then trust me,...

Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking
So pleasant on this side the grave;
It keeps the unhappy from...

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Paul Eldridge: There are those...

Paul Eldridge: There are those...

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the...

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Thomas Tusser: Naught venture naught...

Thomas Tusser: Naught venture naught...

Naught venture naught have.

Source: October's Abstract.
-- Thomas Tusser, ( ...

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Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Women have no wilderness in them
They are provident instead
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To...

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Ugo Betti: All of us...

Ugo Betti: All of us...

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in...

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Harold Pinter: I mean, don't...

Harold Pinter: I mean, don't...

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the...

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Joe Orton: The kind of...

Joe Orton: The kind of...

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad...

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Terence Rattigan: A novelist may...

Terence Rattigan: A novelist may...

A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a...

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Christopher Hampton: I have always...

Christopher Hampton: I have always...

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

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Christopher Hampton: You know very...

Christopher Hampton: You know very...

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to...

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John Osborne: It is easy...

John Osborne: It is easy...

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions -- it saves you bothering with the immediate...

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John Osborne: He really deserves...

John Osborne: He really deserves...

He really deserves some sort of decoration . . . a medal inscribed 'For Vaguery in the...

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