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Samuel Beckett: I shall state...

Samuel Beckett: I shall state...

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of...

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John Fletcher: Love's tongue is...

John Fletcher: Love's tongue is...

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

Source: Piscatory Eclogues, V. xiii
-- John...

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Joseph Brodsky: For the poet...

Joseph Brodsky: For the poet...

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the...

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Joseph Brodsky: After all, it...

Joseph Brodsky: After all, it...

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had...

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George S Kaufman: At dramatic rehearsals,...

George S Kaufman: At dramatic rehearsals,...

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

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Alan Jay Lerner: All I want...

Alan Jay Lerner: All I want...

All I want is a room somewhere,
Far away from the cold night air;
With one enormous chair . . .
Oh, wouldn't...

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Alan Jay Lerner: You write a...

Alan Jay Lerner: You write a...

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Source: Attributed.
-- Alan Jay...

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Arthur Miller: The job is...

Arthur Miller: The job is...

The job is to ask questions -- it always was -- and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of...

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Pierre de Beaumarchais: Be commonplace and...

Pierre de Beaumarchais: Be commonplace and...

Be commonplace and creeping, and you will be a success.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Menander: Man must be...

Menander: Man must be...

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

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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: I was an...

Alan Bennett: I was an...

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of...

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Brendan Behan: It's not that...

Brendan Behan: It's not that...

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and...

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Zora Neale Hurston: If you haven't...

Zora Neale Hurston: If you haven't...

If you haven't got it,
you can't show it.
If you have got it,
you can't hide it.


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Samuel Foote: When house and...

Samuel Foote: When house and...

When house and land are gone and spent,
Then learning is most excellent.


Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: A life spent...

George Bernard Shaw: A life spent...

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing...

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George Bernard Shaw: I dread success....

George Bernard Shaw: I dread success....

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by...

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George Bernard Shaw: No question is...

George Bernard Shaw: No question is...

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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William Shakespeare: In Nature's infinite...

William Shakespeare: In Nature's infinite...

In Nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.


Source: Antony and...

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I seem to...

I seem to...

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third...

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