"As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race."

-- Alan Ayckbourn

#Race Quotes #Made Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.”

Source : "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.
“The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.”
“A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.”

Source : Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.219, Georg Olms Verlag
“The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.”
“What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.”
“I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto”
“Of course I love when people are quiet, but I also love when people are comfortable. I love when people emote. The flip side of having a totally silent audience is that they're less likely to react to you in the space, and I think that's one of the great things about performing live: you get energy from the audience, and you give energy back to them. There's interaction.”
“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”

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