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Alexandre Dumas, fils: Infatuated, half through...

Alexandre Dumas, fils: Infatuated, half through...

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever...

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Menander: Even God lends...

Menander: Even God lends...

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Jean Racine: I loved you...

Jean Racine: I loved you...

I loved you when you were inconstant. What should I have done if you had been faithful? (Je t'aimais inconstant,...

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Edward Albee: The thing that...

Edward Albee: The thing that...

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

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George Gordon Byron: What should I...

George Gordon Byron: What should I...

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel,...

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George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at...

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Robert Browning: Who hears music,...

Robert Browning: Who hears music,...

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.


Source: 1875;...

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Stanislaw Lec: Most of the...

Stanislaw Lec: Most of the...

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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George S Kaufman: I understand your...

George S Kaufman: I understand your...

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

Source: Remark to Howard...

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Jean Giraudoux: We all know...

Jean Giraudoux: We all know...

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as...

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Christopher Fry: It's always our...

Christopher Fry: It's always our...

It's always our touches of vanity
That manage to betray us.


Source: In Webster's...

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Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin...

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca: One may know...

Pedro Calderon de la Barca: One may know...

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Source: In Correct...

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John Ciardi: The reader deserves...

John Ciardi: The reader deserves...

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

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Jules Renard: Literature is an...

Jules Renard: Literature is an...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have...

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Maurice Maeterlinck: Remember that happiness...

Maurice Maeterlinck: Remember that happiness...

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others...

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John Fletcher: Hit the nail...

John Fletcher: Hit the nail...

Hit the nail on the head.

Source: Love's Cure, Act ii. Sc. 1.
-- John Fletcher,...

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John Fletcher: Man is his...

John Fletcher: Man is his...

Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man
Commands all light, all influence,...

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Samuel Foote: What can he...

Samuel Foote: What can he...

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in...

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