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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an…
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…
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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King…
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You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of…
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there…
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
— J. B. Priestley
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would…
— Peter Kreeft
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Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in…
— William Shakespeare
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This is a good look. I'm gonna mess him up," Pattinson praises Stewart. "And I'm just like, I don't know what's going…
— Robert Pattinson
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In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is…
— Thomas Huxley
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