Playwright Quotes - Page 2

• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

  August Wilson

  Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness

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• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

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  Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

  Mae West

  Funny, Relationship, Sexy

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reading

  The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Wisdom comes with winters

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wisdom, Winter

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “A Selection: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.227, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

  Ayn Rand

  Greatness, Novelists, Philosopher

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.382, Hamilton Books

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• No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Grief, Grieving, Rose

  Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.297, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

  Langston Hughes

  God, Faith, Christian

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.156, University of Missouri Press

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Motivational, Humorous

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• Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.804, Penguin

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• Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Love, Life, Giving Up

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  Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

  John Galsworthy

  Love, Birthday, Death

  John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.353, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

  Athol Fugard

  Love, Anger, Inspiration

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• You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

  Unknown

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

  Linda Hogan

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Pain

  Linda Hogan (1997). “Solar Storms”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Sad, Sick, Novelists

  Thomas Bernhard (2010). “Gargoyles: A Novel”, p.13, Vintage

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• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mind, Important, Novelists

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• I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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