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Tennessee Williams: Some mystery should...

Tennessee Williams: Some mystery should...

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left...

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George Herbert: Many things are...

George Herbert: Many things are...

Many things are lost for want of asking.

Source: Jacula Prudentum, 1651.
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William Gilbert: You've no idea...

William Gilbert: You've no idea...

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself -- and how little I deserve it.

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William Congreve: Uncertainty and expectation...

William Congreve: Uncertainty and expectation...

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing...

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Maxwell Anderson: A dramatist is...

Maxwell Anderson: A dramatist is...

A dramatist is usually thought of as a slightly benighted child of nature who somehow or other did it all on a Ouija...

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Moli?re: The trees that...

Moli?re: The trees that...

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Source: In Quotable Business,...

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Friedrich von Schiller: What reason, like...

Friedrich von Schiller: What reason, like...

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a...

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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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Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of...

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Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be...

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Ugo Betti: There is no...

Ugo Betti: There is no...

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Hannah Cowley: The charms of...

Hannah Cowley: The charms of...

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they...

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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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Peter Shaffer: Rehearsing a play...

Peter Shaffer: Rehearsing a play...

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

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Emily Dickinson: Anger as soon...

Emily Dickinson: Anger as soon...

Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat.


Source: Poems, Second...

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Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The Ruin was within.


Source: c.1864,...

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Sean O'Casey: I ofen looked...

Sean O'Casey: I ofen looked...

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the...

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Won't you come...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Won't you come...

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Source: Said to a...

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