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"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
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Tom Stoppard
"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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Harold Pinter
"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."
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Jules Renard
"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."
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"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
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Tennessee Williams
"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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Anton Chekhov
"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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David Mamet
"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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"I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money."
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David Mamet
"I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money."
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"It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it."
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Hannah Cowley
"It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it."
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"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."
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Harold Pinter
"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."
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"Love's tongue is in his eyes."
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John Fletcher
"Love's tongue is in his eyes."
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"Ambition aspires to descend."
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Pierre Corneille
"Ambition aspires to descend."
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"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
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William Shakespeare
"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
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"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor."
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"Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all."
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Terence Rattigan
"Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all."
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"Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust."
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William Shakespeare
"Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust."
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"I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking."
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Hugh Leonard
"I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking."
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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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Edward Albee
"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them."
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Pierre Corneille
"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them."
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"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias."
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Oscar Wilde
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias."
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"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives."
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Friedrich Schiller
"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives."
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"I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble."
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William Shakespeare
"I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble."
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"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."
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William Shakespeare
"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."
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"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."
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Lillian Hellman
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."
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"This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship."
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William Shakespeare
"This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship."
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"Sleep that knits up the ravell'd slave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast."
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William Shakespeare
"Sleep that knits up the ravell'd slave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast."
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"Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won."
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William Shakespeare
"Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won."
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"I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me."
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Hugh Leonard
"I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me."
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"From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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William Shakespeare
"From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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"All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
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Tennessee Williams
"All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
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"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
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William Shakespeare
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
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"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."
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Tennessee Williams
"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."
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"The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever."
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Georg Buchner
"The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever."
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"Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it."
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George Farquhar
"Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it."
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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William Shakespeare
"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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"I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."
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Oscar Wilde
"I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."
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"The fool inherits, but the wise must get."
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William Cartwright
"The fool inherits, but the wise must get."
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"With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain."
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Friedrich Schiller
"With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain."
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"Art is science made clear."
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Wilson Mizner
"Art is science made clear."
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"This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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William Shakespeare
"This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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"Punctuality is the thief of time."
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Oscar Wilde
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
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"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
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Alexandre Dumas
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
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"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."
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William Shakespeare
"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."
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"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."
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Henry Taylor
"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."
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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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Dennis Potter
"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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"The bourgeois are other people."
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Jules Renard
"The bourgeois are other people."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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Tom Stoppard
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"Most hard-boiled people are half-baked."
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Wilson Mizner
"Most hard-boiled people are half-baked."
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"We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness."
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Pierre Corneille
"We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness."
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"A mask of gold hides all deformities."
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Thomas Dekker
"A mask of gold hides all deformities."
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"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
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Dennis Potter
"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
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