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Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said… — Terry Pratchett
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. — Paulo Coelho
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once… — Mary Higgins Clark
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny… — Vaclav Havel
I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the… — J D Salinger
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than… — Kurt Vonnegut
Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing… — Jim Carroll
I said it before and Iâ€™ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: thereâ€™s only movies. Music is still okay,… — Stephen Fry
The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when… — C.S. Lewis
All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let… — George S. Patton
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do… — James Dean
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all. — David Mitchell
Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail… — Stephen Sondheim
I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious… — J D Salinger
My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays… — Gerard Way
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I… — Ray Bradbury

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