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You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. Francoise Sagan
Love Death You Celebrate Laughter Wine Dancing Songs New Affair Lot New Orleans End Love Affair Should Orleans
Monuments are for the living, not the dead. Frank Wedekind
Living Monuments Dead
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. Garson Kanin
Man Old Nights Slept Worried Reckon Ninety Eye He Longevity Most Attributed Because Said Bed His Years Up Asked Should Sat Twinkle
Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry. George Ade
Win Unless Entry Anybody Happens Second
There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. George Seaton
World Worst Bad Around Lot Commercialism Floating
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? Graham Greene
Faith You Mask Lose Abandon Abandoned Alternative Another Always Same
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene
World Lost Innocence Like His Dumb Wandering Meaning Leper Who Bell Harm
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. Graham Greene
Great You People Listening Word Every Everything Boring See Writer Part Advantage Observing Longest Most Parties Spy Scrap Being Useful Even Great Advantage
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. James M. Barrie
Time You Slip Must Some Only Hours Because Been Golden Against Them Warned Letting
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. James M. Barrie
You Woman Matter Else Sort Bloom Anything Anything Else Much Need
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. James M. Barrie
You Sometimes Past Back Way Drawer Out Find Something More Open Particular Safe Force Falls Often Crammed Anything Chilly Interesting Searching Recalling
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. Jean Anouilh
Man Fear Ugly Sight Afraid Who
Every man thinks god is on his side. Jean Anouilh
God Man Every Side His Every Man Thinks
Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them. Jean Kerr
Best People Some People Situation Bad Some Bad Situation Talent Make Around Making Go Situations Them Creating
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. Jean Kerr
Hope You Feeling Permanent
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr
Love Time Home You Man Marriage Long Long Time Else Everything Everything Else Marrying Admiring Window Something Like House Always Go Been Get Shop Shop Window May Buying
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. Jerome Lawrence
Man Fool Everything Out Figured Who
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. John Osborne
Success Failure Waiting Just Thing
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard. John Webster
Devil Politician Never He Him Heard Sins Anvil Blows Fashions
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. John Webster
Fall Ambition Own Dust Lust Our Like Diamonds Blood Whether Cut
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us? Larry Kramer
Gay People Wonderful World Pride Power Wish Building National Lesbian Think Enormous Lobby Benefit Ours Rightfully Could Most Concerns Wonderful Things Being Us Washington Why Things Association
The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.' Lee Hall
Eyes Theatre Matters Transformation Every Extraordinary Out Pretty Point Idea Clearly Know Make Maker Audience Material Came Germ Front Irrelevant Where Ordinary Much Speaking Event Now Right
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else. Lee Hall
Life You Theatre Unfinished Important Stage Live Else Everyone Unless Everyone Else Enterprise Complications Through Writer Shared Shares Performance Audience Always Trying Manager Whether Compact Live Performance Express Actor Specific Play
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care. Lorraine Hansberry
Care Too Much Energy Too About Takes Much
The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence. Lorraine Hansberry
Man Oppression Problem World Threatens Existence Which
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. Luigi Pirandello
Today You Reality Illusion Tomorrow Too Much Yesterday Too Must Count Feel Since Like Prove May Much Your
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