"I think that certainty is a closed door,……" — John Patrick Shanley
"I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door."
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20 Quotes by John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley has 20 quotes on this site.
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Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?
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I have doubts! I have such doubts!
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Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give…
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All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and…
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Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
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Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you…
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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts…
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dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank…
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Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite…
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I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life,…
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Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't…
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If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in…
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More Certainty Quotes
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one of 970 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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