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G C Lichtenberg: It is said...

G C Lichtenberg: It is said...

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination...

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Benjamin Franklin: If you would...

Benjamin Franklin: If you would...

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth...

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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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David Mamet: We respond to...

David Mamet: We respond to...

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.

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William Gilbert: Things are seldom...

William Gilbert: Things are seldom...

Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.


Source: In The...

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Philip Massinger: He that would...

Philip Massinger: He that would...

He that would govern others, first should be
The master of himself.


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Alan Bennett: Life is rather...

Alan Bennett: Life is rather...

Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.

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John Ciardi: A university is...

John Ciardi: A university is...

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

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Maurice Maeterlinck: A truth that...

Maurice Maeterlinck: A truth that...

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of...

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David Hare: The ultimate tendency...

David Hare: The ultimate tendency...

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Source: In The...

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Wilson Mizner: I can usually...

Wilson Mizner: I can usually...

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Antonin Artaud: When we speak...

Antonin Artaud: When we speak...

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of...

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George Chapman: Danger is the...

George Chapman: Danger is the...

Danger is the spur of all great minds.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Martial: Live thy life...

Martial: Live thy life...

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Source: Epigrams, 7,...

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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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Vita Sackville-West: I have come...

Vita Sackville-West: I have come...

I have come to the conclusion after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at...

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Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sea.

Source: No Signposts in the Sea, 1961.
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Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

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Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei...

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Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

A Deed knocks first at Thought
And then -- it knocks at Will --
That is the manufacturing...

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