"In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly."

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Source : Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

Lady Gregory

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.”
“I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.”
“My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.”
“Nobody should put out a record before they know what the street thinks.”
“Can a president whoâ€™s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?”
“Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.”
“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.”
“If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.”

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