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Letter "S" » Shakespeare
«If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
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Critic,
Man of letter,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
corrupted,
corruptibility,
dealing,
fiction writer,
in a sense,
mainly,
Sex and,
Shakespeare,
themes,
tremendous
«I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.»
«I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(
Actor,
Film Director,
Producer)
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About:
Actors and acting
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Keywords:
actor,
act of God,
caviar,
feeding,
Shakespeare,
slightly,
soaring,
tilt,
tilted,
tilting,
tilts
«On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare»
«I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.»
«I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order.»
«I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.»
«I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.»
«Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
blast,
blasted,
blasting,
collect,
collects,
john,
John A,
John D,
Moses,
Paul,
Paul A,
Paul I,
reading,
select,
Selecting,
selects,
Seneca,
sentences,
Shakespeare,
triumph
«If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.»