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Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) by Linux fortune

A drama critic is a person who surprises a playwright by informing him
what he meant.
                -- Wilson Mizner
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
                -- John Mason Brown, drama critic
Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra and sank.
                -- John Mason Brown, drama critic
The challenge of space exploration and particularly of landing men on the moon
represents the greatest challenge which has ever faced the human race.  Even
if there were no clear scientific or other arguments for proceeding with this
task, the whole history of our civilization would still impel men toward the
goal.  In fact, the assembly of the scientific and military with these human
arguments creates such an overwhelming case that in can be ignored only by
those who are blind to the teachings of history, or who wish to suspend the
development of civilization at its moment of greatest opportunity and drama.
- Sir Bernard Lovell, 1962, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest
about it.
                -- James Agate, British film and drama critic
Is this the line for the latest whimsical YUGOSLAVIAN drama which also
makes you want to CRY and reconsider the VIETNAM WAR?
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