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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
- Orchestration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
- Nov 07, 2020
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
- Nov 07, 2020
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
- Arresting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
- Agent
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
- Best Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
A play visibly represents pure existing.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020