"You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool"

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Howard Barker

#Lying Quotes #Musical Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.”
“Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?”

Source : Song: Storm
“Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As the world is getting smaller, it becomes more and more important that we learn each other's dance moves, that we meet each other, we get to know each other, we are able to figure out a way to cross borders, to understand each other, to understand people's hopes and dreams, what makes them laugh and cry.”
“In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.379, St. Martin's Press
“A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.”
“Edgar Sawtelle is a boy without a voice, but his world, populated by the dogs his family breeds, is anything but silent. This is a remarkable story about the language of friendshipâ€”a language that transcends words.”
“The greatest cost, namely time.”

Source : Quoted in Plutarch Antonius, 28.

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