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Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.


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Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Business? it's quite simple: it's other people's money.

Source: Giraud, in La...

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Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Children see things very well sometimes -- and idealists even better.

Source: In...

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Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

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Samuel Beckett: I have my...

Samuel Beckett: I have my...

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Source: The...

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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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Douglas Jerrold: Sir, you are...

Douglas Jerrold: Sir, you are...

Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point.

Source: Speaking...

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Nicolas Chamfort: People are governed...

Nicolas Chamfort: People are governed...

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Source:...

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Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time...

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Sean O'Casey: [W]ith whitened hair,...

Sean O'Casey: [W]ith whitened hair,...

[W]ith whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity...

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Harold Pinter: One way of...

Harold Pinter: One way of...

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

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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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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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David Mamet: People may or...

David Mamet: People may or...

People may or may not say what they mean. . . but they always say something designed to get what they...

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Pierre Corneille: Brave men are...

Pierre Corneille: Brave men are...

Brave men are brave from the very first.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the...

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Stephane Mallarme: There is only...

Stephane Mallarme: There is only...

There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- Poetry. All the rest is a lie -- except for those...

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Stephane Mallarme: Dreams have as...

Stephane Mallarme: Dreams have as...

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis...

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Andrew Marvell: He nothing common...

Andrew Marvell: He nothing common...

He nothing common did or mean
Upon that memorable scene,
But with his keener eye
The axe's edge did...

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Andrew Marvell: I have a...

Andrew Marvell: I have a...

I have a garden of my own,
But so with roses overgrown,
And lilies, that you would it guess
To be a little...

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