"Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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"Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right."

— Nick Cohen

Journalism1961

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"What is my ruling faculty now to me? and of what nature am I now making it? and for what purpose am I now using it? is it void of understanding? is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? is it m…"

— Marcus Aurelius

Philosophy

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"There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today."

— Friedrich Engels

Philosophy1796–1860

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"The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations vie …"

— Roger Kahn

Literature1927–2020

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