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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

~Christopher Fry

Topics: Between Birth Brushes Death May Moth Our Touch Understanding Window Wing

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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

~Christopher Fry

Topics: Always Eye Imagination Leads More See Truth Us Vividly Which

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What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

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Topics: After Clean Halo Keep More Only Thing

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The dark is light enough.

~Christopher Fry

Topics: Dark Enough Light

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In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

~Christopher Fry

Topics: Comedy Eternity Every Moment Tragedy

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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

Topics: Corner Existence First First Time Had Just Life Look Run Time Turned Want

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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.

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Topics: Commonplace Corner First First Time Had Just Life Look Plays Run Time Turned Want

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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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Topics: Comedy Despair Escape Faith Narrow Truth

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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.

~Christopher Fry

Topics: Able Attention Being Full Give Half Half The Time Much Poetry Prose Say Seeming Time Twice Virtue You Your

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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.

~Christopher Fry

Topics: Best Home Like Look Lost Make Much Thing Wherever

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Playwright

Born: December 18th, 1907

Died: June 30th, 2005

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