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Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
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Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 37 -
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
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Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
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Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
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