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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
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.
Run on, keep your head down, cross at the double / The bursts of open day between the nights.
What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
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