"Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!"

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Source : Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.36, Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

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“I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.”
“My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.”
“Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.”
“The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of ***** has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.”

Source : Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.2, WaterBrook
“I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.”
“But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.”
“But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.”

Source : Kate Quinn (2013). “The Serpent and the Pearl”, p.201, Penguin
“The art of love is who you share it with.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 10, 2014

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