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Theatre Critic Inspirational Quotes (466)

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Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
Robert Brustein
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Emile Zola
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
Bram Stoker
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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Kenneth Tynan
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Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't get, whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.
Hilton Als
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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert Graves
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
Emile Zola
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Emile Zola
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
Bram Stoker
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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The Dead travel fast.
Bram Stoker
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
Bram Stoker
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Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
Jeremy Collier
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The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, What can we postpone next? The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars.
George S. Kaufman
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Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.
Robert Graves
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Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.
Robert Graves
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
Robert Graves
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
Octave Mirbeau
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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
George Henry Lewes
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In love as in speculation there is much filth in love also, people think only of their own gratification yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
Emile Zola
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A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.
George Henry Lewes
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Emile Zola
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