"Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure."

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Source : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

Pierre Beaumarchais

#Children Quotes #Pain Quotes #Play Quotes

“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.”
“Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.”
“If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go,”
“My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.”
“My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.”
“Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.”
“A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.”
“What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!”

Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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