Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. - David Hare

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Smiles are the language of love. - David Hare

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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. - David Hare

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Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. - David Hare

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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - David Hare

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. - David Hare

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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. - David Hare

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. - David Hare

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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. - David Hare

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The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. - David Hare

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