"The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her."

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Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87

Robert Aris Willmott

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“There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.”
“... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.”
“In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.”

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“Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.”
“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.”
“Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.”

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“Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.”
“The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.”

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