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Christopher Fry Quotes

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

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Author Details:
Type:
Playwright Quotes
Category:
English Playwright Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 18, 1907
Date of Death:
June 30, 2005
Nationality:
English
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Select Christopher Fry Quotations:
The dark is light enough.
Christopher Fry

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

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

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.
Christopher Fry

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
Christopher Fry

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

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


Quote Keywords:

Comedy, Eternity, Every, Moment, Tragedy
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Comedy, Eternity, Every, Moment, Tragedy
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