"I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people."

-- Alan Bennett

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.”

Source : Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. May 16,2012.
“I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become”
“Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.”
“Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...”

Source : "Provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Rush". 1869.
“Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.”
“His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.”
“One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.69, MIRA
“Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.”

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