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Adaptation Quote by David Hare

“The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.” quote by David Hare — Download Open image

“The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.”

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

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I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is…

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I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

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You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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In oratory the will must predominate.

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Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this…

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I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.

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When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is…

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My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is…

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To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

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