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• There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

  Mireille Mathieu

  Red, Forget, Fatigue

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• The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Tempest, Gonzalo From Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 405

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• Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

  Mark Twain

  Charity, Scene, Draws

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics)”, p.46, MobileReference

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• I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Crazy

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• There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Philosophical, Trying, Raises

  Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Cost, Excluded

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.208, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Real, War, Shadow

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.

  Raymond Carver

  Writing, Insightful, Stories

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories”, p.25, Vintage

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• My parents took me to shows starting when I was a very little kid. I remember seeing Henry IV at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC and our neighbor, who was playing Banquo, winked at me during the curtain call. I remember thinking "he can SEE ME?!" I was hooked from then. I wanted to be part of the place where you can escape the world, and also wink at it.

  Nick Blaemire

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

  Winston Churchill

  Europe, Iron, Iron Curtain

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• The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

  Robert Caro

  Rose, Ballet, Firsts

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• And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

  Frank Sinatra

  Finals, Faces, Ends

  Song: I Did It My Way

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• But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

  Edwin Booth

  Fall, Play, Found

  Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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• People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

  John Stamos

  Mean Girls, Insecure, People

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• I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

  Grover Cleveland

  Truth, Responsibility, Men

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• O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Soul, Training, Window

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• I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

  Angela Carter

  Father, Farewell, Glasses

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Journey

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• If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.

  Victoria Coren Mitchell

  Morning, Home, Want

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

  Lionel Trilling

  Taken, Happy Endings, Tragic

  Lionel Trilling (1963). “Matthew Arnold”

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• Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

  Thomas Flatman

  Death, Fall, Play

  Thomas Flatman (1686). “Poems and songs”, p.131

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• What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Men, Attention, Entering

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Twilight, May

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in

  Max Lucado

  Father, Doors, Tangled

  Max Lucado (2012). “He Chose the Nails”, p.191, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Doors, Impress, Mysterious Benedict Society

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