Terence Rattigan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
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I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.
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It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
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To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.
-- Terence Rattigan
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
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You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
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Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
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The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.
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Life happened because I turned the pages.
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Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
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Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
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In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
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It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
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