"There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare."

-- Margaret Drabble

#Discovery Quotes #Play Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.”
“There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.”
“Dreams are nervy thingsâ€”all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.”
“At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.”
“I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.”
“Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.”
“One's too many and a hundred's not enough.”
“The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.”

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