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From Quotes by David Hare
- Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
- The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
- One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
- If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with…
- [David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought…
- The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from…
- Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction…
- Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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