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“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“I, Rooster John Byron, hereby place a curse
Upon the Kennet and Avon Council,
May they wander the land for ever,
Never sleep twice in the same bed,
Never drink water from the same well,
And never cross the same river twice in a year.
He who steps in my blood, may it stick to them
Like hot oil. May it scorch them for life,
And may the heat dry up their souls,
And may they be filled with the melancholy
Wine won't shift. And all their newborn babies
Be born mangled, with the same marks,
The same wounds of their fathers.
Any uniform which brushes a single leaf of this wood
Is cursed, and he who wears it this St George's Day,
May he not see the next.”
― Jez Butterworth, Jerusalem

“Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure.”
― Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

“At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.”
― Rajiv Joseph, Three Plays: Gruesome Playground Injuries / Animals Out of Paper / Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

“Exit, pursued by a bear.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
― John Adams

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.”
― Rosalyn Drexler, The Line of Least Existence and Other Plays

“That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.”
― Eugène Ionesco, Man With Bags

“Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.”
― Timberlake Wertenbaker, The Ash Girl

“It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.”
― Edward Gorey

“The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them. ”
― Stephen Sondheim

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.”
― David Hare, A Map of the World

“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”
― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

“He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.”
― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“No other foreskin could have caused such trouble.”
― Peter Manseau, Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“All water is holy water.”
― Rajiv Joseph, Animals Out of Paper

“I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.”
― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County

“Now we wake up with our memory
and fix our gazes on that which was;
whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,
sits silently beside us with loosened hair”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Uncollected Poems

“What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,
Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.”
― Yoko Ono

“I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.”
― William Shatner

“Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.”
― John Adams

“We're all free and equal to die like dogs”
― Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

“My mother is a fish.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying