"A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?"

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Source : "A Crash Course In Playwriting". research.alanayckbourn.net. 1993.

Alan Ayckbourn

#Eye Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Hair Quotes

“His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.”
“We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”

Source : Miriam Toews (2013). “Swing Low”, p.57, Faber & Faber
“As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.”
“In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.”
“The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.”
“...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches toward death.”

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