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Lorraine Hansberry: Never be afraid...

Lorraine Hansberry: Never be afraid...

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

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-- Lorraine Hansberry, (May 19...

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August Wilson: There's no idea...

August Wilson: There's no idea...

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in...

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Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Hope is the thing with feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tunes without the words --
And...

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Charles Dibdin: In every mess...

Charles Dibdin: In every mess...

In every mess I find a friend,
In every port a wife.


Source: Jack in his...

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Douglas Jerrold: Fortunes made in...

Douglas Jerrold: Fortunes made in...

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long...

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Joe Orton: It's all any...

Joe Orton: It's all any...

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

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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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Imamu Amiri Baraka: To name something...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: To name something...

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Source: In...

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Robert Bolt: The nobility of...

Robert Bolt: The nobility of...

The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

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John Keats: There is an...

John Keats: There is an...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is...

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Jean de LaFontaine: Gentleness succeeds better...

Jean de LaFontaine: Gentleness succeeds better...

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Thomas Moore: The world is...

Thomas Moore: The world is...

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams...

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Denise Levertov: Images <br>split the...

Denise Levertov: Images
split the...

Images
split the truth
in fractions.


Source: A Sequence, in The Jacob's...

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Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Source: In Quote (Anderson), 24 Mar...

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Louis Aragon: The function of...

Louis Aragon: The function of...

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

Source:...

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Wilfred Owen: Red lips are...

Wilfred Owen: Red lips are...

Red lips are not so red
As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.


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Wilfred Owen: All a poet...

Wilfred Owen: All a poet...

All a poet can do today is warn.

Source: Poems.
-- Wilfred Owen, (Mar 18...

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Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Though language forms the preacher,
'Tis good works make the man.


Source: Good...

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Andrew Marvell: Let us roll...

Andrew Marvell: Let us roll...

Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough...

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Paul Newman: The embarrassing thing...

Paul Newman: The embarrassing thing...

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Source:...

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