"Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places."

-- Minnie Maddern Fiske

#Beautiful Quotes #Play Quotes #Black Quotes

“I liked the idea of being an actress, but thought better of it.”
“The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.”

Source : "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",
“When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.”
“We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.”

Source : Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.1
“Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.”
“The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible means, or if they could be got by forcible means, such means create more evils than they cure, and leave the country worse than they found it.”
“When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.”
“Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.”

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