Christopher Fry quotes

Coffee in England is just toasted milk. (Christopher Fry)
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. View quote
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. View quote
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The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can. View quote
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. View quote
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The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate. View quote
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The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created. View quote
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What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. View quote
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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly. View quote
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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. View quote
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The dark is light enough. (Christopher Fry)
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. View quote
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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. View quote
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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It 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. View quote
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