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Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,… — Henry David Thoreau
You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the… — Bob Dole
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. — Francois Rabelais
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing… — Charles Dickens
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. — Herman Wouk
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back… — Anton Chekhov
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between… — Diana Trilling
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height… — Bhartrhari
What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind. — Matthew Macfadyen
Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our… — Frederick Lenz
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are… — Mike White
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing. — Candace Bushnell
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second… — Rudolf Bing
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love… — Tim DeKay
I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to… — Anne Enright
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will… — Charles Scott Sherrington
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries. — Joni Mitchell
I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate… — Konrad Lorenz
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage. — Maria Callas
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back… — Mitchell Zuckoff
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of… — H.G. Wells
People really do identify with the characters they see on the show, but these days, social media allows you to interact with fans in a… — Chris Carmack
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. — Paul Gauguin
A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form,… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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