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1667 Playwright Quotes

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Healthy attitude Contagious Wait A carrier
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Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

Success Metaphysical experience Bigger scale
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It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.

Light matter Jeopardy Single life Underpin
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Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Theater Story telling Feel entitled Playwright
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbor, your village and beyond.

Give Life Your children Last biscuit
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All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Your life Truth Permanent blur Being ambushed
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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Better Know Useless things Nothing
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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

Human right Simply endorse Life Moral value
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I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I'm hopeless Looking Into myself See
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Maturity High price Pay Growing up
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The voting Democracy The counting
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Give advice The bucket Take it The grain
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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers

Whole life Waiting for The questions Prepared answers
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I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
So thrilled Reported Access To people
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Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

Time Short The entertainers Newspaper
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What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

The society To protect Complete surveillance Commonwealth
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

From principles Probability Truth Obtained
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Life Gamble Terrible odds
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

You associate Older people Do enjoy Their lives
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The bad End unhappily Good unluckily Tragedy means
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Enough things Untrue About you Will know
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It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

Better Quotable Be honest
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The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say

The truth Compound Half truths Never reach
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Art A mirror Reality Hammer
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Human race Remember Abuses Endearment
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Dark times Be singing Yes About
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Science Open The door Wisdom
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Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Sometimes More important Be human Good taste
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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life

Fear death Inadequate life
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He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.

Who laughs Last Yet head Bad news
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People who understand everything get no stories.

People Understand everything No stories
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

Everyone Chases after Happiness Not noticing
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All art forms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Art forms Service Greatest Living
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

What happens The hole Cheese Gone
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Intelligence No mistakes But quickly Them good
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

Unhappy The land Need Heroes
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Why be a man when you can be a success.
A man You can Success
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Something seems Most obvious World Understand
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If you join the rat race,you're in the race of rats.

You join Rat race
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As crimes pile up, they become invisible.

As crime Pile up Become invisible
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One must live well to know what living is.
One must Live well Know Living is
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Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race.

Thinking Greatest pleasures Human race
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The wickedness of the world is so great, you have to keep running so your legs won't be stolen from under you!

The wickedness World So great Keep running
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Every time you name yourself, you name someone else.

Every time Name yourself Someone else
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Life is short and so is money.
Life Short Is money
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Failure Condiment Gives success Its flavor
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

Anyone Who ever Gave you Confidence
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

More tears Answered prayer Unanswered ones
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
Better Look The sky Live there
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Love somebody Stranger Friend
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