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Belief
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
-David Hare
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Children
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Children always turn to the light.
-David Hare
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Civilization
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
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Fools, Foolishness
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No one but a fool is always right.
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Heart
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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
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Heaven
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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Honor
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To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
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Mind, the
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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Poetry
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
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Smile
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Smiles are the language of love.
-David Hare
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Solutions
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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
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Strength
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
-David Hare
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Theater
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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
-David Hare
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Thought
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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
-David Hare
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Virtue
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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
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Will, Willpower
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In oratory the will must predominate.
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Books by and about David Hare