"As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street."

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“Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.”

“Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.”

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.”

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"If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time."

— Arthur M. Jolly

Literature1969

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"Timeo Dominum transeuntem"

— Augustine of Hippo

Philosophy354–430

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"50 Years Later, Lolita Still Seduces Readers"

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literature1912–1977

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"The researches of the last thirty or forty years into the history of mathematics have put the whole subject upon a different plane. I have endeavoured in this edition to take account of all the main r…"

— Thomas Little Heath

Mathematics1861–1940

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