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Christopher Fry quotes

English Playwright December 18, 1907 – June 30, 2005

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Your life, sir, is propelled. By a dream of the fear of having nightmares; your love. Is the fear of being alone; your world's history. The fear of a possible leap by a possible antagonist. Out of a possible shadow, or a not-improbable. Skeleton out of your dead-certain cupboard. Christopher Fry
I am very much in love with something; What it may be I can't remember; It will come to me. That was a roundabout drive in the snow, Owing to my erratic sense of direction! Christopher Fry
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time. Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry quote: "The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in..."
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can. Christopher Fry
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. Christopher Fry
I've never seen a world. So festering with damnation. I have left. Rings of beer on every alehouse table. From the salt sea-coast across half a dozen counties, But each time I thought I was on the way. To a faintly festive hiccup. The sight of the damned world sobered me up again. Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry quote: "Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a..."
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry quote: "The dark is light enough."
The dark is light enough. Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry quote: "Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see..."
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly. Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry quote: "Coffee in England is just toasted milk."
Coffee in England is just toasted milk. Christopher Fry
... we have given you a world as contradictory as a female, as cabbalistic as a male, a conscienceless hermaphrodite who plays heaven off against hell, hell off against heaven, revolving in the ballroom of the skies glittering with conflict as diamonds: we have wasted paradox and mystery on you when all you ask us for is cause and effect! Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry quote: "Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow..."
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry quote: "The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing..."
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry quote: "One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria."
One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria. Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry quote: "In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a..."
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. Christopher Fry

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