"Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?"

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Source : Christopher Fry (2007). “Plays Three”, Oberon Books Limited

Christopher Fry

#Differences Quotes #Victory Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“Â“I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball.Â””
“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.”
“A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.”
“It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.”
“All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!”
“I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.”
“The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.”
“To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.”

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