"My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity."

-- David Lindsay-Abaire

#Play Quotes #Outsiders Quotes #Clarity Quotes

“Public image is extremely important in American society and I observed personally that the Presidency of John F. Kennedy did much in the public mind for Harvard. Harvard was an excellent school before Kennedy, but Kennedy embodied a new vision for the United States: a leader who caught the world's imagination and that reflected on his alma mater, Harvard.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.”
“Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.”
“Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical”
“Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.”

Source : "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
“Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.”

Source : "Fictional character: Marie-Antoinette". "Marie Antoinette", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isnâ€™t a passion, it isnâ€™t burning, it isnâ€™t on fire, you havenâ€™t lived.”

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