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1667 Playwright Quotes

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

Can't blame Writer Characters say
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

Can't give Your heart Wild thing
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Don't care What Anybody says True
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Loved her Forget myself Self pitying Be content
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It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

No shame Have Dirty face Comes
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There is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

One unpardonable Sin Deliberate cruelty Forgiven
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As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

You live Something waiting Bad Stop living
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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Love No geography Knows No boundaries
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Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

The older You grow Into action Locked up heard
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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Imagination Open Any door Key
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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

Life Without something Confound it My goat
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Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floating, they create

Real fear Sounds Footsteps Walking
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I despise people who can't control themselves.

Despise people Can't control Themselves
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Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.

Have you Wise man Future exists The past
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

Disquieting loneliness My life No hunger Friends
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I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Have cancer Dishonest heart Just practical
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

The dead Lonesome Living
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

The problem Living outside Law Have
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

Thought The future Spoke Past
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Book Device Ignite Imagination
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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it

Books Pasing time Other worlds Wanting time
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules

We started off Set up Anarchist community People
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Sometime Next time Second chance Now
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing in capabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

History Commentary Continuing In capabilities
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Hardest things Boys Learn Teacher
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Life Sardines Looking for Key
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

One recipe Happiness Entitlement Added
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Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

Greater pleasure Come across An author One enjoy
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History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.

History Nowadays Matter Conviction
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Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.

Marriage Partnership Good looking People
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Never at my best when at my best behavior.

Never My best When Behavior
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The more institutions and freedoms and benefits one can take for granted – of which in my view free state-supported galleries and museums come high on the list – the more civilised a society is.

More institutions Freedom Benefit Granted
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The prime minister did not wholly believe in the past or in any lessons that might be drawn from it

Prime minister Wholly believe Past Lesson
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You don't put your life into books. You find it there.

Don't put Your life Into books
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Body Spirit Are twins God
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Today will die tomorrow.

Today Will die Tomorrow
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Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

Fate Sea A shore The soul
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.

The world Dreams Have chosen My part
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Let weakness learn meekness.

Let weakness Learn meekness
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Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Fear Makes faith May break
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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end

Have lived One thing Love An end
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There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

No God Found stronger Death Sleep
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

Hope Fear speaks Truth Blind
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Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Cannot understand Never The way Fairyland
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There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

Magic The distance Sea line Meets
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Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose!
Heart The world Young Love
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Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun

Happy.God Done Little leaves Dancing
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Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

Beauty Fading flower Death bell Forest round
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If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

Any doubts Fundamental realities Religion Early communion
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Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

In souls Christ Birth Lives
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