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title: "159 William Shakespeare Quotes by 109 authors"
description: "Browse 159 William Shakespeare quotes by 109 authors. Discover the best William Shakespeare sayings and thoughts."
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> [“If music be the food of love, play on rock on . William Shakespeare - love evolution”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-mankin/if-music-be-the-food-of-love-play-on-rock-on-william-shakespeare-love/)

Michelle Mankin

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> [“All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/all-men-who-repeat-a-line-from-shakespeare-are-william-shakespeare/)

[Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/)

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> [Conscience doth make cowards of us all. William Shakespeare, Hamlet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespear/conscience-doth-make-cowards-of-us-all-william-shakespeare-hamlet/)

[William Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespear/)

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> [“There is flattery in friendship - William Shakespeare”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/there-is-flattery-in-friendship-william-shakespeare/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sangfroid-stalker/wisely-and-slow-they-stumble-that-run-fast-william-shakespeare-romeo/)

[SangFroid Stalker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sangfroid-stalker/)

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> [“Bloody thou art, Bloody will be thy end William Shakespeare, Richard III”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-paul-davis/bloody-thou-art-bloody-will-be-thy-end-william-shakespeare-richard-iii/)

[John Paul Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-paul-davis/)

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> [Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-spielberg/akira-kurosawa-is-the-pictorial-william-shakespeare-of-our-time/)

[Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-spielberg/)

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> [ \[Thine\] face is not worth sunburning. William Shakespeare, Henry V ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespear/thine-face-is-not-worth-sunburning-william-shakespeare-henry-v/)

[William Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespear/)

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> [“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lenore-look/did-you-know-that-the-author-william-shakespeare-invented-more-than/)

[Lenore Look](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lenore-look/)

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> [Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-ebert/nicholas-sparks-recently-went-on-record-as-saying-he-is-a-greater/)

[Roger Ebert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-ebert/)

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> [These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume William Shakespeare,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespear/these-violent-delights-have-violent-ends-and-in-their-triump-die-like/)

[William Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespear/)

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> [“This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robyn-carr/this-above-all-to-thine-own-self-be-true-and-it-must-follow-as-the-2/)

[Robyn Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robyn-carr/)

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> [“Meet the time as it seeks us. «Encontremos el tiempo como nos busca». The Tragedy of Cymbeline, William Shakespeare”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kerstin-gier/meet-the-time-as-it-seeks-us-encontremos-el-tiempo-como-nos-busca-the/)

[Kerstin Gier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kerstin-gier/)

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> [“During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/during-these-years-in-stamps-i-met-and-fell-in-love-with-william/)

[Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/)

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> [When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-burstyn/when-i-was-19-i-took-a-train-from-houston-to-new-york-and-i-had-in-my/)

[Ellen Burstyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-burstyn/)

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> [“Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before. William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-norman/viola-de-lesseps-you-have-never-spoken-so-well-of-him-before-william/)

[Marc Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-norman/)

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> [The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sununu/the-media-love-coarse-debate-because-coarse-debate-drives-ratings-and/)

[John Sununu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sununu/)

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> [I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-doran/i-think-william-shakespeare-s-like-a-passport-through-your-life-as-a/)

[Gregory Doran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-doran/)

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> [Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sangfroid-stalker/lord-polonius-what-do-you-read-my-lord-hamlet-words-words-words-lord-2/)

[SangFroid Stalker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sangfroid-stalker/)

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> [I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-weisman/i-had-studied-william-shakespeare-in-oxford-england-and-i-had-this/)

[Greg Weisman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-weisman/)

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> [First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/first-book-was-handwritten-then-the-printing-press-now-we-ve-got-our/)

[Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/)

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> [When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-furnish/when-you-get-the-high-art-of-william-shakespeare-and-the-greatest/)

[David Furnish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-furnish/)

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> [O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sangfroid-stalker/o-serpent-heart-hid-with-a-flowering-face-did-ever-a-dragon-keep-so-2/)

[SangFroid Stalker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sangfroid-stalker/)

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> [I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolas-cage/i-m-one-of-those-people-that-feels-that-americans-that-shouldn-t-do/)

[Nicolas Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolas-cage/)

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> [ One of the reasons \[William\] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/one-of-the-reasons-william-shakespeare-is-so-endlessly-fascinating-is/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [“21. Take in a great breath of air and then blow it out. Contained in that single breath were at least three…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-dobson/21-take-in-a-great-breath-of-air-and-then-blow-it-out-contained-in/)

[James C. Dobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-c-dobson/)

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> [I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-arthur/i-believe-strongly-in-what-john-keats-called-negative-capability-the/)

[James Arthur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-arthur/)

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> [“Who can make sense of the roles we play? If I could draw any conclusion about the long, depressing slog of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-lee-burke/who-can-make-sense-of-the-roles-we-play-if-i-could-draw-any/)

[James Lee Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-lee-burke/)

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> [The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-robbins/the-power-of-reading-a-great-book-is-that-you-start-thinking-like-the/)

[Tony Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-robbins/)

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> [ \[Bob Dylan\] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bennun/bob-dylan-is-principally-a-recording-artist-and-if-he-weren-t-it-is/)

[David Bennun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bennun/)

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> [“History teaches us that Literary Book Awards have always been the quickest and easiest way to achieve global fame. They have helped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mouloud-benzadi/history-teaches-us-that-literary-book-awards-have-always-been-the/)

[Mouloud Benzadi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mouloud-benzadi/)

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> [Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milbank/once-one-has-realized-following-the-great-english-literary/)

John Milbank

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> [“Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/suddenly-in-the-space-of-a-moment-i-realized-what-it-was-that-i-loved-2/)

[Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/)

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> [“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-lewis/no-institution-of-learning-of-ingersoll-s-day-had-courage-enough-to/)

[Joseph Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-lewis/)

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> [“On one of those nights in January 2014, we sat next to each other in Maria Vostra, happy and content, smoking nice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-adam-nyapi/on-one-of-those-nights-in-january-2014-we-sat-next-to-each-other-in/)

[Tomas Adam Nyapi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-adam-nyapi/)

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> [“Aztec peasants, Babylonian shepherds, Athenian stonemasons, and Carolingian merchants spoke different languages,2 wore different clothing, and prayed to different deities, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-rosen/aztec-peasants-babylonian-shepherds-athenian-stonemasons-and/)

[William Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-rosen/)

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> [“ William Shakespeare. She knew him. They were,the three of them-Lucinda,Daniel,and Shakespeare- friends. There had been a summer afternoon when Daniel had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-kate/william-shakespeare-she-knew-him-they-were-the-three-of-them-lucinda/)

[Lauren Kate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-kate/)

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> [Et tu, Brute? William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespear/et-tu-brute-william-shakespeare-julius-caesar/)

[William Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespear/)

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> [ \[Thou\] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms! William Shakespeare, Henry IV: Part 1 ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespear/thou-mad-mustachio-purple-hued-maltworms-william-shakespeare-henry-iv/)

[William Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespear/)

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> [Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-harrison/dylan-is-so-brilliant-to-me-he-makes-william-shakespeare-look-like/)

[George Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-harrison/)

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                        "text": "Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. William Shakespeare, Hamlet",
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                        "text": "I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.",
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                        "text": "O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain! William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet",
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                        "text": "I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.",
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                        "text": "One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different angles: Caliban in Shakespeare's day was probably viewed as a sort of comic, barbarian type, but into the 19th century there were productions where Caliban was the hero. He's a potential rapist of a minor. Is that a good thing? No, it is not. On the other hand, Prospero's got him cooped up in a cave and tortures him if he doesn't do what Prospero wants. Is that a good thing? No. Shakespeare doesn't let you off easy.",
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                        "text": "“21. Take in a great breath of air and then blow it out. Contained in that single breath were at least three nitrogen atoms that were breathed by every human being who ever lived, including Jesus Christ, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and every president of the United States. This illustrates the fact that everything we do affects other people, positively or negatively. That’s why it is foolish to say, “Do your own thing if it doesn’t hurt anybody else.” Everything we do affects other people.”",
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                        "text": "I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. For Keats, William Shakespeare exemplified negative capability, and I do think it's extraordinary that for all the thousands of pages Shakespeare left behind, we really don't know much about Shakespeare's own personality or opinions.",
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                        "text": "“Who can make sense of the roles we play? If I could draw any conclusion about the long, depressing slog of human progress, it’s the possibility that unseen elements lie just on the other side of the physical universe and that somehow we’re actors on the stage of the Globe, right across the Thames from a place called Pissing Alley, whether William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe are aware of our presence or not.”",
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                        "text": "The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.",
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                        "text": "[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He is to be heard first and read second. Well, what about plays, you could reasonably ask. Is [William] Shakespeare not great literature? Yes, obviously: but his work is great literature even to those who have never known it performed. The same is evidently not true of Dylan.",
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                        "text": "“History teaches us that Literary Book Awards have always been the quickest and easiest way to achieve global fame. They have helped countless authors to shoot to stardom. But this fame usually fades away after their death, unlike William Shakespeare, Jane Austen or Charles Dickens who never won any awards, yet they continue to be read, quoted and remembered as the greatest writers of all time.”",
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                        "text": "Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse of the poor are the result of the refusal of true Christianity ... one is led to articulate a more incarnate, more participatory, more aesthetic, more erotic, more socialized, even a more 'Platonic' Christianity.",
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                        "text": "“Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - Marmite, village fetes, country lanes, people saying 'mustn't grumble' and 'I'm terribly sorry but', people apologizing to me when I conk them with a nameless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, stinging nettles, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, crumpets, hot-water bottles as a necessity, drizzly Sundays - every bit of it. What a wondrous place this was - crazy as fuck, of course, but adorable to the tiniest degree. What other country, after all, could possibly have come up with place names like Tooting Bec and Farleigh Wallop, or a game like cricket that goes on for three days and never seems to start? Who else would think it not the least odd to make their judges wear little mops on their heads, compel the Speaker of the House of Commons to sit on something called the Woolsack, or take pride in a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy? ('Please Hardy, full on the lips, with just a bit of tongue.') What other nation in the world could possibly have given us William Shakespeare, pork pies, Christopher Wren, Windsor Great Park, the Open University, Gardners' Question Time and the chocolate digestive biscuit? None, of course. How easily we lose sight of all this. What an enigma Britain will seem to historians when they look back on the second half of the twentieth century. Here is a country that fought and won a noble war, dismantled a mighty empire in a generally benign and enlightened way, created a far-seeing welfare state - in short, did nearly everything right - and then spent the rest of the century looking on itself as a chronic failure. The fact is that this is still the best place in the world for most things - to post a letter, go for a walk, watch television, buy a book, venture out for a drink, go to a museum, use the bank, get lost, seek help, or stand on a hillside and take in a view. All of this came to me in the space of a lingering moment. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I like it here. I like it more than I can tell you.”",
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                        "text": "“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his own intellectual accomplishments, but also for his influence upon the minds of the learned men and women of his time and generation. Robert G. Ingersoll never received a prize for literature. The same prejudice and bigotry which prevented his getting an honorary college degree, militated against his being recognized as 'the greatest writer of the English language on the face of the earth,' as Henry Ward Beecher characterized him. Aye, in all the history of literature, Robert G. Ingersoll has never been excelled -- except by only one man, and that man was -- William Shakespeare . And yet there are times when Ingersoll even surpassed the immortal Bard . Yes, there are times when Ingersoll excelled even Shakespeare , in expressing human emotions, and in the use of language to express a thought, or to paint a picture . I say this fully conscious of my own admiration for that 'intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought.' Ingersoll was perfection himself. Every word was properly used. Every sentence was perfectly formed. Every noun, every verb and every object was in its proper place. Every punctuation mark, every comma, every semicolon, and every period was expertly placed to separate and balance each sentence. To read Ingersoll , it seems that every idea came properly clothed from his brain. Something rare indeed in the history of man's use of language in the expression of his thoughts . Every thought came from his brain with all the beauty and perfection of the full blown rose, with the velvety petals delicately touching each other. Thoughts of diamonds and pearls, rubies and sapphires rolled off his tongue as if from an inexhaustible mine of precious stones. Just as the cut of the diamond reveals the splendor of its brilliance, so the words and construction of the sentences gave a charm and beauty and eloquence to Ingersoll 's thoughts. Ingersoll had everything: The song of the skylark; the tenderness of the dove; the hiss of the snake; the bite of the tiger; the strength of the lion; and perhaps more significant was the fact that he used each of these qualities and attributes, in their proper place, and at their proper time. He knew when to embrace with the tenderness of affection, and to resist and denounce wickedness and tyranny with that power of denunciation which he, and he alone, knew how to express.”",
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                        "text": "“On one of those nights in January 2014, we sat next to each other in Maria Vostra, happy and content, smoking nice greens, with one of my favorite movies playing on the large flat-screen TVs: Once Upon a Time in America. I took a picture of James Woods and Robert De Niro on the TV screen in Maria Vostra's cozy corner, which I loved to share with Martina. They were both wearing hats and suits, standing next to each other. Robert de Niro looked a bit like me and his character, Noodles, (who was a goy kid in the beginning of the movie, growing up with Jewish kids) on the picture, was as naive as I was. I just realized that James Woods—who plays an evil Jewish guy in the movie, acting like Noodles' friend all along, yet taking his money, his woman, taking away his life, and trying to kill him at one point—until the point that Noodles has to escape to save his life and his beloved ones—looks almost exactly like Adam would look like if he was a bit older. “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” – William Shakespeare That sounds like an ancient spell or rather directions, instructions to me, the director instructing his actors, being one of the actors himself as well, an ancient spell, that William Shakespeare must have read it from a secret book or must have heard it somewhere. Casting characters for certain roles to act like this or like that as if they were the director’s custom made monsters. The extensions of his own will, desires and actions. The Reconquista was a centuries-long series of battles by Christian states to expel the Muslims (Moors), who had ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula since the 8th century. The Reconquista ended on January 2, 1492. The same year Columbus, whose statue stands atop a Corinthian custom-made column down the Port at the bottom of the Rambla, pointing with his finger toward the West, had discovered America on October 12, 1492. William Shakespeare was born in April 1564. He had access to knowledge that had been unavailable to white people for thousands of years. He must have formed a close relationship with someone of royal lineage, or used trick, who then permitted him to enter the secret library of the Anglican Church. “A character has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure what he/she’s supposed to be doing.” – Anthony Burgess Martina proudly shared with me her admiration for the Argentine author Julio Cortazar, who was renowned across South America. She quoted one of his famous lines, saying: “Vida es como una cebolla, hay que pelarla llorando,” which translates to “Life is like an onion, you have to peel it crying.” Martina shared with me her observation that the sky in Europe felt lower compared to America. She mentioned that the clouds appeared larger in America, giving a sense of a higher and more expansive sky, while in Europe, it felt like the sky had a lower and more limiting ceiling. “The skies are much higher in Argentina, Tomas, in all America. Here in Europe the sky is so low. In Argentina there are huge clouds and the sky is huge, Tomas.” – Martina Blaterare “It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.” – George Orwell, 1984”",
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                        "text": "“Aztec peasants, Babylonian shepherds, Athenian stonemasons, and Carolingian merchants spoke different languages,2 wore different clothing, and prayed to different deities, but they all ate the same amount of food, lived the same number of years, traveled no farther—or faster—from their homes, and buried just as many of their children. Because while they made a lot more children—worldwide population grew a hundredfold between 5000 BCE and 1600 CE, from 5 to 500 million—they didn’t make much of anything else. The best estimates for human productivity (a necessarily vague number) calculate annual per capita GDP, expressed in constant 1990 U.S. dollars, fluctuating between $400 and $550 for seven thousand years. The worldwide per capita GDP in 800 BCE3—$543—is virtually identical to the number in 1600. The average person of William Shakespeare’s time lived no better than his counterpart in Homer’s.”",
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                        "text": "“ William Shakespeare. She knew him. They were,the three of them-Lucinda,Daniel,and Shakespeare- friends. There had been a summer afternoon when Daniel had taken Lucinda to visit Shakespeare at his home in Stratford. Toward sunset,they'd sat in the library,and while Daniel worked on his sketches at the window, Will had asked her question after question-all the while taking furious notes-about when she'd first met Daniel, how she felt about him, whether she thought she could one day fall in love. Aside from Daniel,Shakespeare was the only one who knew the secret of Lucinda's indentity-her gender-and the love the players shared offstage. In exchange for his discretion,Lucinda was keeping the secret that Shakespeare was present that night at the Globe. Everyone else in the company assumed that he was in Stratford, that he'd handed over the reins of the theater to Master Fletcher.Instead,Will appeared incognito to see the play's opening night. When she returned to his side,Shakespeare gazed deep into Lucinda's eyes. \"You've changed.\" \"I-no,I'm still\"-she felt the soft brocade around her shoulders. \"Yes, I found the cloak.\" \"The cloak,is it?\" He smiled at her, winked. \"It suits you.”",
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                        "text": "Et tu, Brute? William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar",
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                        "text": "[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms! William Shakespeare, Henry IV: Part 1",
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